Selected quotes · 25
№ 01
“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”
Will RogersGrowth
№ 02
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
Will RogersWisdom
№ 03
“Never let yesterday use up too much of today.”
Will RogersTime
№ 04
“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.”
Will RogersFreedom
№ 05
“We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.”
Will RogersHappiness
№ 06
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?”
Will RogersTime
№ 07
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
Will RogersWisdom
№ 08
“Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.”
Will RogersWisdom
№ 09
“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”
Will RogersWisdom
№ 10
“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”
Will RogersCreativity
№ 11
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
Will RogersWisdom
№ 12
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will RogersWisdom
№ 13
“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”
Will RogersFailure
№ 14
“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.”
Will RogersJustice
№ 15
“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 RogersLife
№ 16
“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.”
Will RogersAction
№ 17
“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”
Will RogersWisdom
№ 18
“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.”
Will RogersWisdom
№ 19
“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 RogersLife
№ 20
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
Will RogersWisdom
№ 21
“You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.”
Will RogersTime
№ 22
“Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”
Will RogersLife
№ 23
“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.”
Will RogersFreedom
№ 24
“The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.”
Will RogersCreativity
№ 25
“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”
Will RogersLife