96 Quotes By Will Rogers


Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers on art

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

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
Will Rogers on best

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

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
Will Rogers on best

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will Rogers on best

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

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers on business

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
Will Rogers on business

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

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers on business

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers on death

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers on education

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 education

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

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers on equality

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

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers on family

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 finance

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers on funny