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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Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

Will Rogers

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Will Rogers

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Will Rogers

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Will Rogers

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Will Rogers

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

Will Rogers

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Will Rogers

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

Will Rogers

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Will Rogers

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

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Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

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Author Bio

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