Quotes By Will Rogers

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

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

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

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

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

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.