Will Rogers

150 quotes

"Never let yesterday use up too much of today."

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

"I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em."

Will Rogers

"We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can."

Will Rogers

"If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics."

Will Rogers

"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when its through, if you are a crook or a martyr."

Will Rogers

"You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you a new way."

Will Rogers

"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it."

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Will Rogers

"Nothing you can’t spell will ever work."

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

"Nothing you can't spell will ever work."

Will Rogers

"I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em."

Will Rogers

"The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity."

Will Rogers

"We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it."

Will Rogers

"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

"I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up."

Will Rogers

"in ‘The Library’ (1985) VI.7 You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

"The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match."

Will Rogers

"in the ‘New York Times’, 31–Aug–1924 It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so."

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Will Rogers

"Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much."

Will Rogers