Will Rogers, (1879-1935) American humorist Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-30] of 62 Will Rogers quotesWill Rogers QuotesWill Rogers Next 30 quotes A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.~ Will Rogers Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.~ Will Rogers Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.~ Will Rogers 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 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.~ Will Rogers Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!~ Will Rogers I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father'. ~ Will Rogers I don't make jokes -- I just watch the government and report the facts.~ Will Rogers Income taxes have made more liars out of the American people than golf.~ Will Rogers The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.~ Will Rogers Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.~ Will Rogers If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.~ Will Rogers This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.~ Will Rogers You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.~ Will Rogers An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.~ Will Rogers The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.~ Will Rogers The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.~ Will Rogers If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.~ Will Rogers I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.~ Will Rogers One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.~ Will Rogers That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.~ Will Rogers The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.~ Will Rogers Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.~ Will Rogers Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.~ Will Rogers Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock.~ Will Rogers There is good news from Washington today. The Congress is deadlocked and can't act.~ Will Rogers You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.~ Will Rogers Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.~ Will Rogers Things in our country run in spite of the government, not by the aid of it.~ Will Rogers We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it.~ Will Rogers Next 30 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print