96 Quotes By Will Rogers


You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers on war

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.
Will Rogers on war

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers on war

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers on war

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Will Rogers on war

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Will Rogers on women

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.
Will Rogers on work

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers on work

I never met a man I didn't like.
Will Rogers on affection

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers on education

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
Will Rogers on freedom

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers on independence

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

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
Will Rogers on marriage

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.
Will Rogers on movies

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 time