Will Rogers quotes

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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

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?'

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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.

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

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

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.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

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.

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.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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

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.

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

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

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

A fool and his money are soon elected.

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.

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

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

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

Politics is applesauce.

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.

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.

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

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

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

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.