Will Rogers Quotes

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.

The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.

I don't know what humor is.

The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.

What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.

Death is a door life opens.

Brown v. Board is the foundation by which all Americans can look for hope - hope for their children, hope for their families, and hope for a better future.

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still. Not quite a science yet, but when someone's making something weird, I like to know about it.

Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as dry as the corner of a heated living room.

From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.

God does business with those who mean business.

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.

Faith comes out of the heart not the head.

Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus.

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines.

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.

We have not really advertised Chicago internationally.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

At the end of the day, saving money is really about efficiency. You simplify your life, and its overall quality inevitably gets better.

I realized that there wasn't accessible, user-friendly content out there that really empowered people to find a way into the green movement.

There's something very environmental about quality. We live in such a disposable society, but real style doesn't change that much.

I'm big on reworking vintage. Also, buying one great piece that lasts forever - to me, that is total sustainability.

What I learned from being around great icons like Calvin Klein is that the great fashion trendsetters don't change their look every season. They have a look, and they update maybe a piece per season.

I worked in fashion for ten years, and like anyone in the fashion industry, even if you leave, you never leave fashion behind.

I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.

Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.

I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit.

Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.