96 Quotes By Will Rogers


It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers on government

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

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

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

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 learning

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers on learning

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers on legal

People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will Rogers on legal

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

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

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

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.
Will Rogers on love

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.
Will Rogers on men

A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers on money

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers on money

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 money

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

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 money

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
Will Rogers on money

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.
Will Rogers on money