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Will Rogers Quotes - Page 13

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Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

War, Flower, Men

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

History, Reputation, Mona Lisa

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.

Business, Years, Pet

Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them.

Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

Character, Watches, Politics

Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

Funny, Humorous, Party

Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

Wisdom, Loss, Men

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Life, Territory, Being There

Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

Men, America, Mad

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.229, Rowman & Littlefield

We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.

Heart, Would Be, Ems

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

Funny, Way, Lawyer

We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.

Volleyball, Laughing, Spells

American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.

Tired, Trouble, Minutes

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out

Funny, Money, Politician

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

Men, Politics, Want

Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.

Running, Country, Husband

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

Country, America, Great Country

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

Teaching, Science, Monkeys

In 'Saturday Review' 25 August 1962 'A Rogers Thesaurus'

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

Issues, Common Sense, Affliction

Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

Political, Dumb, Politics

The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.

Hate, War, Ems

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.202, Rowman & Littlefield

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Politics, Voters, Politician

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'

Tombstone, Party, Government

I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.

Country, Men, Law

"They've Got a New Dictionary at Ellis Island" (1926)

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Party, Leader, Politics

Will Rogers (1982). “"He Chews to Run": Will Rogers' Life Magazine Articles, 1928”

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