Will Rogers Quotes

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

We live by promises not by explanations.

Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

There can be no mercy without truth.

Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.

Either you will be under the blood or you will place the blood under you.

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

It is a direction not a destination.

I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

It's a miracle when we finally discover whom we're best equipped to serve.

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.

I've got enough nerve to do anything!

I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.

I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

The first loss is the best loss.

I don't think I own any US stocks, if I do its very few, so few I can't even remember.

We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.

The music business is strictly business.

I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time.

CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.

Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have.

I've got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them.

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.

OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

Today is much more an age of greed

I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

To know her was to love her.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Then never less alone than when alone.

That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.