Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Will Rogers Quotes - Page 22

All Quotes Advertising Age Art Belief Boat Business Character Children College Common Sense Community Cooking Country Crime Death Democracy Dying Eating Economics Education Evil Fighting Funny Generosity Giving Giving Up Golf Gossip Great Depression Happiness Hard Work Hate Heart Hilarious History Home Honesty House Hurt Ignorance Inspiration Inspirational Intelligence Judging Knowledge Labor Laughter Learning Liars Liberty Life Lifetime Lying Making Money Marriage Memories Money Motivational Observation Office Opportunity Peace Politics Prayer Prohibition Prosperity Quitting Racing Reading Recovery Reputation Running School Science Sports Stupidity Success Taxes Teaching Time Today Voting Waiting Wall War Water Winning Wisdom Work Worry Writing

Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.

Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.

Law, Political, Wish

We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.

May, Forget, Should

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

So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!

Giving, Liberty, Democratic

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

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

Real, Eye, Men

There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans.

Wise, Coffee, Agriculture

Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

Funny, Humorous, Party

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Thinking, America, Odd

If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.

Way, Ends, Ifs

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

Dream, Money, Trying

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

Country, Work, Would Be

We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.

Home, Boys, Pay

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

Men, Times Like These, President

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

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.

Mother, Running, Father

America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.

Business, Opportunity, Land

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

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

Inspiration, Science, Technology

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

And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.

Children, Kids, Ems

Will Rogers (2006). “The Papers of Will Rogers: The final years, August 1928-August 1935”, p.368, University of Oklahoma Press

I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, "Put it in land, and you can always walk on it." We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.

Letting Go, Real, Land

Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.

Congress

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

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

Inspiration, People, Ems

Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

People, Nuisance, Causes

Will Rogers (1974). “The Illiterate Digest”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.

Giving Up, Long, Ems

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

Inspiration, Biting, Fingernails

There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.

Watches, Looks, Gone

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.199, Rowman & Littlefield

Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is "Yokel", but San Francisco is "City at Heart".

New York, Heart, San Francisco

The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?

Judging, Decision, Half

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.119, Rowman & Littlefield

You May Also Like: