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Will Rogers Quotes - Page 20

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Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

Long, Rumor, May

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

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Political, Amusement, Politics

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

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.

Agriculture, Clubs, Association

Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Country, Space, Worry

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

Trying, Digging, Holes

Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.

Horse, Accomplishment, Bravery

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

Government, Taxes Funny, Pay

That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says "Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.

Boys, President, Republican

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

All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.

Laughter, America, Long

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.57, Rowman & Littlefield

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

Driven, Certain, Fanaticism

Will Rogers (1927). “There's not a bathing suit in Russia & other bare facts”

Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

Paper, Advertising, Forty

"The Illiterate Digest".

But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.

Business, People, Devil

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

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

Men, Littles, Great Depression

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

Wisdom, Fire, Politics

If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.

Business, Air, Might

Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.

Gambling, Debt, Great Depression

If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.

Business, Dollars, Saving

There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.

Smart, Two, Railroads

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

I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.

Running, Business, Class

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

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Politics, Vote, Good Humor

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

You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.

Business, Skills, Lines

Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”

The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.

Country, Wall, Fall

The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.

Country, Children, Law

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

Country, Agriculture, Just Live

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

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

Business, Men, Worry

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