Top 725 Quotes & Sayings by Will Rogers - Page 4

You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.

Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.

Lord, let me live until I die.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.

No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.

The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'

When you're through learning, you're through.

I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.

No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.

Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

Don't wait to buy land, buy land and wait.

The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there

Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.

In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

No party is as bad as its leaders.