Quotes by Will Rogers

About Will Rogers:

William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social commentator and stage and motion picture actor. He became one of the most famous American media stars during the 1920s and 1930s.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Will Rogers

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

Will Rogers

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Will Rogers

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Will Rogers

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Will Rogers

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Will Rogers

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Will Rogers

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Will Rogers

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Will Rogers

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Will Rogers

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Will Rogers

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Will Rogers

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Will Rogers

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Will Rogers

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Will Rogers

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

Will Rogers

Author Bio

  • NameWill Rogers
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornNovember 4, 1879
  • DiedAugust 15, 1935
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Politician