Will Rogers Quotes

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

I haven't met a rich technician

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.

Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

Anything with no head is dead, and anything with two heads is a freak.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.

Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can.

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

It's a lot of fun finding a country that nobody knows about. The only thing better is finding a country everybody's bullish on and shorting it.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

A company is known by the people it keeps.

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

If you want to be lucky, do your homework.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.

You are not saved by the plan of salvation. You are saved by the man of salvation.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.