L. W Rogers Quotes

It’s what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

We’re to love people and use things, not love things and use people.

It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.

Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it.

You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

But I believe the greatest enemy of the Bible is the so-called Christian who simply ignores the Bible or disregards it.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

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.

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

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.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!

A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever.

Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension.

Life is about Being & Becoming.

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun, joy and happiness. This is my gift.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.