Quotes By Will Rogers

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

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.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

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

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

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

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

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.

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.

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.

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

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.