Will Rogers Quotes

We have some great ideas, but most of 'em come too late to do us any good.

By Will Rogers

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

By Will Rogers

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

By Will Rogers

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

By Will Rogers

This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.

By Will Rogers

Live so that you wouldn

By Will Rogers

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.

By Will Rogers

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. Government

By Will Rogers

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. Government

By Will Rogers

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? Government

By Will Rogers

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?

By Will Rogers

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

By Will Rogers

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

By Will Rogers

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

By Will Rogers

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

By Will Rogers

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

By Will Rogers

There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. If you have lost anybody anywhere and don

By Will Rogers

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

By Will Rogers

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

By Will Rogers

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. Education

By Will Rogers

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. Education

By Will Rogers

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.

By Will Rogers

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.

By Will Rogers

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

By Will Rogers

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

By Will Rogers

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. Business

By Will Rogers

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. Business

By Will Rogers

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. Business

By Will Rogers

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. Business

By Will Rogers

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

By Will Rogers