Top 25 Quotes by Will Rogers of 709 - Page 21

A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a

A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.

Will Rogers

Real, Men, Land

Will Rogers (1983). “"How to be funny" & other writings of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

Will Rogers

Want, Causes

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.200, Rowman & Littlefield

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

Will Rogers

Equality, Color, Matter

Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.

Will Rogers

Horse, Made, Superiors

When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

Will Rogers

Long, Politics, Long Time

Will Rogers (1976). “Convention articles of Will Rogers”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Will Rogers

Pregnancy, Ohio, Government

"How we elect our Presidents". Book by Will Day, p. 9, 1952.

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

Will Rogers

War, Two, Giving

"Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End". Daily Telegram #2159 (syndicated column) on July 05, 1933. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.

Will Rogers

Men, Ignorant, Different

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

Will Rogers

Government, Dry, Vote

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.158, Rowman & Littlefield

With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.

Will Rogers

Science, Men, Two

America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."

Will Rogers

Business, Night, Men

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

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.

Will Rogers

Death, Concerned, Jokes

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

We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.

Will Rogers

Knowledge, Ems, Use

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

Will Rogers

Believe, Years, Crowds

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.16, Rowman & Littlefield

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

Will Rogers

Running, Art, Hurt

Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.

Will Rogers

Mind, Looks, Statistics

Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.

Will Rogers

People, Generosity, Causes

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

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.

Will Rogers

Talking, America, People

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

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

Will Rogers

Horse, Boys, Racing

We fed 'em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas

Will Rogers

New Year, Xmas, Years

A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.

Will Rogers

Horse, Animal, Men

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

We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

Will Rogers

Mean, Law, Really Mean

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