Will Rogers Quotes

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

Oh! she was good as she was fair. None-none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are, To know her was to love her.

Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before.

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full of life and circumstance.

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.

I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

We have the best Congress that money can buy.

We do more talking progress than we do progressing.

I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.

Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.

There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.

People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.