Top 25 Quotes by Will Rogers of 709 - Page 16

There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.

There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.

People, Income, Pay

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

It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

Will Rogers

Cities, Chicago, Shooting

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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

Will Rogers

Government, Years, Pockets

Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, M. Jane Johansson (2001). “The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915”, p.331, University of Oklahoma Press

Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.

Will Rogers

Zoos, Home, Animal

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.150, Rowman & Littlefield

If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

Will Rogers

Running, Wall, Government

Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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

Will Rogers

Country, Inspiration, Hamilton

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

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

Will Rogers

Pain, Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings

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

Trying, Affair, Manage

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.17, Rowman & Littlefield

Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.

Will Rogers

Syntax, Sin, Taxes

When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.

Will Rogers

Children, Fall, Party

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

Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.

Will Rogers

Men, Presidential, Insane

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

Will Rogers

Political Will, Jail, Independence

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.149, Rowman & Littlefield

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

Will Rogers

America, Worry, Would Be

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

Will Rogers

Reading, Men, Waiting

"The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.

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

Will Rogers

Educational, School, Nostalgia

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

Mass, Cheaper, Courses

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

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Will Rogers

Hands, Prison, Goods

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.164, Rowman & Littlefield

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

Will Rogers

Long, Ems, May

Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.

Will Rogers

Law, Congress, Injured

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.

Will Rogers

Fishing, Would Be, World

Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.

Will Rogers

Honesty, Business, Successful

Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere

Will Rogers

Firsts, Refuse, Knows

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

Will Rogers

Running, Men, Rivers

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.43, Rowman & Littlefield

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

Will Rogers

Government, Doe, Politics

Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see that it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

Will Rogers

Business, War, Home

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

Will Rogers Quotes - Page 16

You May Also Like: