Will Rogers Quotes

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.

There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Stay away from trouble when you can.

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

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

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

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

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

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

The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

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

As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

What you are alone is what you are.

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

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Law without penalty is only advise.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

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

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans.

There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.

Girls can do everything men can do...just backwards and in heels

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women.