Top 725 Quotes & Sayings by Will Rogers - Page 2
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
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