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.

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.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

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

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

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.

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

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

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

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.