Will Rogers Quotes

• Never miss a good chance to shut up.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Funny
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  Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Today, Take

• Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diplomacy, Rock
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  You can’t say civilization don’t advance — for in every war, they kill you in a new way.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in War, Advance, Civilization

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

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Humor, Politics

  Tags in Seriously, Comedian

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

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prayer, Close

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

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry, Debt

• Lord, let me live until I die.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Until, Die

• The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Won, Lost

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

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Onion, Cry

• On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nation, Matter

• If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stupidity, Creativity

• Mother’s Day, it’s beautiful thought, but it’s somebody’s hurtin’ conscience that thought of the idea. It was someone who had neglected their mother for years, and then they figured out: I got to do something about Momma. And knowing Momma was that easy, they figured, “we’ll give her a day, and it will be all right with Momma.” Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364. See?

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Holidays, Conscience

• 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.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Education, Work

  Tags in How, Owes, Actual, Learn, Less, Think, More, Read, Somebody, Spoils, Thing, Make, Know, Little, Living

• When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance, Knows

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

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorant, Know

• Elections are a good deal like marriages. There’s no accounting for anyone’s taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it’s the same with public officials.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Elections, Marriage

• We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learned, Civilization

• It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Costs, Counts, Pay, Man

• I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Watch, Jokes

Will Rogers (143)

Birth:	4th November, 1879
Death:	15th August, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Columnist, Comedian, Radio Personality

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