Will Rogers Quotes
Here are some of Will Rogers Famous Quotes:
Attitude:
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Character:
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Enjoy Life:
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
Movies:
I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Quotes by Will Rogers
Government:
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what’s going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?
Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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.
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
There ought to be one day– just one– when there is open season on senators.
There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Life & Time:
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Quotes from Will Rogers
Politics:
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Politics is applesauce.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best.
Income Tax:
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Misc:
Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what is the matter-he’s got to just know.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
You can’t say that civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
Communism is like prohibition, it’s a good idea but it won’t work.
I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn’t like.
An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.
Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.
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.
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Quotes of Will Rogers
Nothing you can’t spell will ever work.
See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails?
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.