Top 25 Quotes by Will Rogers of 709 - Page 9

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

Will Rogers

People, Stupidity, Intellectual

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'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

Funny, Movie, Witty

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Will Rogers

College, Race, Years

We have the best Congress that money can buy.

Will Rogers

Congress

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Will Rogers

Acceptance, Keeping Promises, Greed

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

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

Will Rogers

Gun, America, Politics

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.113, Rowman & Littlefield

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

Will Rogers

Men

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

Will Rogers

Inspirational, Funny, Girl

Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.

Will Rogers

Book, Political, Relation

There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.

Will Rogers

Thinking, People, Littles

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

No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Will Rogers

Ocean, Two, Knows

You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.

Will Rogers

Running, Party, Good Friend

'The Illiterate Digest' (1924) 'Breaking into the Writing Game'

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

Will Rogers

Art, Men, Europe

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

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

Will Rogers

War, Home, Killing

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.113, Rowman & Littlefield

It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.

Will Rogers

Years, America, Care

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.14, Rowman & Littlefield

They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.

Will Rogers

Thinking, Years, Two

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.86, Rowman & Littlefield

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

Will Rogers

People, Conversation, Observation

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

Will Rogers

Country, Life And Love, Business

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

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.

Will Rogers

Funny, Humor, Cowboy

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Will Rogers

Government, Pay, Good Things

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

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Will Rogers

Inspiration, Political Will, Justice

"Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 258, 1979.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

Will Rogers

Mother, Race, People

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

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

Will Rogers

Men, People, Want

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.97, Rowman & Littlefield