Will Rogers Quotes
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I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.
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I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.
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Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
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When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.
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Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.
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I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is "Sound," and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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A company is known by the people it keeps.
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There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.
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There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
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People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.
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There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.
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People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
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If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.
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I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.
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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
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A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
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On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.
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I don't know what humor is.
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When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.
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You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.
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Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
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Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.
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When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.
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I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
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