Will Rogers Quotes

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.

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

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.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.

Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants; they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for performers to get hot food after the show.

Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

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

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.

I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!

Theres heaven in the sweet by and by but there is to be victory in the nasty now and now.

When a scientist says he believes the Bible--that doesnt give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith in the scientist.

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.