Quotes By Will Rogers

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

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

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

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

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

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

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

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

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

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

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