Will Rogers Quotes

Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.

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.

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.

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.

If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

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

It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment

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

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.

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

I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

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

Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.

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

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

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

I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.

It would drive a person crazy to dope out really what does divide the two parties. Prosperity don't divide the two parties, for under either administration the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.

We have the best Congress that money can buy.

We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.

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

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

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

It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.

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

The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

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

When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.

We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.

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.

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.

Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.