Will Rogers Quotes

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.

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.

My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

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

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

When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it's almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it's blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.

Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

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

God doesn't just love all of us. He loves each of us.

The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.

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

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

Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.

I learned very early in my investing careers: I better not invest in what I want. I better invest in what's happening in the world. Otherwise I'll be broke - dead broke.

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

..Science is changing. God's Word does not change!

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

Play is really the work of childhood.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

God does not flunk any of His children. He just re-enrolls them.

You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

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?'

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

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.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

I’ve got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.