Top 500 Will Rogers Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “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

452. “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

453. “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

454. “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

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

458. “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

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

461. “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

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

465. “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

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

— Will Rogers

467. “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

468. “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

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

471. “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

472. “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

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

477. “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

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

— Will Rogers

479. “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

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

— Will Rogers

481. “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

482. “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

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

— Will Rogers

484. “There wasn’t any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn’t a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.”

— Will Rogers

485. “If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.”

— Will Rogers

486. “They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.”

— Will Rogers

487. “Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.”

— Will Rogers

488. “One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.”

— Will Rogers

489. “I never met a man I didn’t get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.”

— Will Rogers

490. “If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.”

— Will Rogers

491. “Now they got such a high inheritance tax on ’em that you won’t catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.”

— Will Rogers

492. “Nothing you can’t spell will ever work.”

— Will Rogers

493. “I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.”

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

495. “Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.”

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

498. “In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.”

— Will Rogers

499. “What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.”

— Will Rogers

500. “I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.”

— Will Rogers