Famous quotes by Actors

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

"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"

Will Rogers, Actor

"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"

Will Rogers, Actor

"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip"

Will Rogers, Actor

"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 Rogers, Actor

"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"

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

"Never let yesterday use up too much of today"

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

"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"

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

"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"

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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