Top 500 Will Rogers Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.”

— Will Rogers

452. “We do more talking progress than we do progressing.”

— Will Rogers

453. “Be a politician; no training necessary.”

— Will Rogers

454. “Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.”

— Will Rogers

455. “We know lots of things we didn’t use to know but we don’t know any way to prevent ’em from happening.”

— Will Rogers

456. “There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans.”

— Will Rogers

457. “There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, ‘Who among us on salary are earning our income?’”

— Will Rogers

458. “You can’t legitimately kick on income tax, for it’s on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at land, farms, homes, stores, vacant lots. You pay year after year on them whether you make it or not.”

— Will Rogers

459. “Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.”

— Will Rogers

460. “A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.”

— Will Rogers

461. “When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.”

— Will Rogers

462. “Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.”

— Will Rogers

463. “It’s the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.”

— Will Rogers

464. “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

465. “I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”

— Will Rogers

466. “If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.”

— Will Rogers

467. “But we can’t alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn’t have it. Now he’s got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don’t know what to do.”

— Will Rogers

468. “I love horses and I only ask-don’t let me know which one we are eating today.”

— Will Rogers

469. “Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that’s the only way I know to clear the thing up.”

— Will Rogers

470. “If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week.”

— Will Rogers

471. “There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.”

— Will Rogers

472. “People don’t change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.”

— Will Rogers

473. “Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.”

— Will Rogers

474. “One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody’s land to somebody else.”

— Will Rogers

475. “There is a horse here-the furthest north of any horse, and he eats fish and travels on snowshoes.”

— Will Rogers

476. “A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.”

— Will Rogers

477. “Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”

— Will Rogers

478. “The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can’t help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.”

— Will Rogers

479. “We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.”

— Will Rogers

480. “Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.”

— Will Rogers

481. “America is a great country, but you can’t live in it for nothing.”

— Will Rogers

482. “There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can’t stand him quite that long.”

— Will Rogers

483. “It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else’s alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.”

— Will Rogers

484. “The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.”

— Will Rogers

485. “There is nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.”

— Will Rogers

486. “Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.”

— Will Rogers

487. “Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.”

— Will Rogers

488. “Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.”

— Will Rogers

489. “So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!”

— Will Rogers

490. “Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.”

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

492. “You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.”

— Will Rogers

493. “I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch ’em from now on, they’re going to publish their names.”

— Will Rogers

494. “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

495. “There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.”

— Will Rogers

496. “Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else’s life.”

— Will Rogers

497. “It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.”

— Will Rogers

498. “Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.”

— Will Rogers

499. “I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I’ve got to prowl slow some time through this country.”

— Will Rogers

500. “In Europe public men do resign. But here it’s a lost art. You have to impeach ’em.”

— Will Rogers