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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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Will Rogers

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Will Rogers

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

Will Rogers

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Will Rogers

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Will Rogers

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

Will Rogers

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Will Rogers

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Will Rogers

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Will Rogers

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Will Rogers

Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Will Rogers

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Will Rogers

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

Will Rogers

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Will Rogers

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Will Rogers

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

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.

Will Rogers

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Will Rogers

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Will Rogers

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

Author Bio

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