96 Quotes By Will Rogers


Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers on funny

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
Will Rogers on funny

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

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

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Will Rogers on funny

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers on good

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers on good

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.
Will Rogers on good

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

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
Will Rogers on good

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
Will Rogers on good

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.
Will Rogers on good

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers on government

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

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.
Will Rogers on government

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

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

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.
Will Rogers on government

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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
Will Rogers on government