Quotes By Will Rogers

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

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

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

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

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

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

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

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

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

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.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

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

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

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

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

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

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

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

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

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

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.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

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

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

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.