Will Rogers Quotes

Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

Work to make a living; serve to make a life.

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

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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

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

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

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

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

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.

The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.

These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.

Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.