Will Rogers Quotes

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

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.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use.

The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.

Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.

I know personally the transforming power of the Word of God-it's changed my life.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

Real strength has to do with helping others.

there is direction but there is no destination

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

The gospel is simply glorious and gloriously simple.

There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.

You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.

You can't just tip your hat to Jesus; you must bow your knee.

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?

My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.