Inspiring Quotes by Will Rogers - Page 2

"An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh"

"An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out"

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

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

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there"

"Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff"

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth"

"A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth"

"Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do"

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

"One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials"

"I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father.""

"When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur"

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide"

"Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse"

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

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

"The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got"

"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"

"In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time"

"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"

"This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die"

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

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

"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators"

"The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing"

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

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

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way"

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

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

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

"If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production"

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

"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"

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

"I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times"

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

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

"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there"

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

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip"

"Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs"

"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 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking"

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

"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"

"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?""

"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf"

"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it"

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