Will Rogers Quotes
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.
The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.
The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.
I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.
The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.
Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.
I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.
Every time you say no to Jesus Christ, it makes it that much harder for you to say yes to Jesus Christ.
It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.
History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.
It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts.
You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.
God doesn't need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God's way to grow Christians.
Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.
I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.
That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
