Will Rogers Quotes

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.

The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They kill the bull very quick. Wall Street lets you live and suffer.

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.

Salvation is not a plan; it's a Man.

When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it.

I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

I'm a business person at heart.

Yes, it benefits the planet, but I don't lead with the green message anymore because I think there's a more evergreen way to look at it, which is efficiency.

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.

What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.

They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.