Will Rogers Quotes

I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.

The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

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

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

Love begins with listening.

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

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

Common sense ain't common.

I'm going to go and leave my blood all over the track.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

Light refused increases darkness.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.