Top 500 Will Rogers Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.”

— Will Rogers

52. “I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.”

— Will Rogers

53. “With Congress, every time they make a joke it’s a law, and every time they make a law it’s a joke.”

— Will Rogers

54. “We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.”

— Will Rogers

55. “What’s considered enough money? Just a little bit more.”

— Will Rogers

56. “When you’re through learning, you’re through.”

— Will Rogers

57. “Always drink upstream from the herd.”

— Will Rogers

58. “The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back.”

— Will Rogers

59. “Things will get better – despite our efforts to improve them.”

— Will Rogers

60. “Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.”

— Will Rogers

61. “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.”

— Will Rogers

62. “Common sense ain’t common.”

— Will Rogers

63. “Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.”

— Will Rogers

64. “I never met a man that I didn’t like.”

— Will Rogers

65. “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.”

— Will Rogers

66. “People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.”

— Will Rogers

67. “When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.”

— Will Rogers

68. “If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.”

— Will Rogers

69. “You must judge a man’s greatness by how much he will be missed.”

— Will Rogers

70. “Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.”

— Will Rogers

71. “Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.”

— Will Rogers

72. “The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”

— Will Rogers

73. “A king can stand people’s fighting but he can’t last long if people start thinking.”

— Will Rogers

74. “We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”

— Will Rogers

75. “I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.”

— Will Rogers

76. “We have the best Congress that money can buy.”

— Will Rogers

77. “You can’t legislate intelligence and common sense into people.”

— Will Rogers

78. “An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.”

— Will Rogers

79. “There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.”

— Will Rogers

80. “If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?”

— Will Rogers

81. “You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.”

— Will Rogers

82. “If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.”

— Will Rogers

83. “Lord, let me live until I die.”

— Will Rogers

84. “There is not a man in the country that can’t make a living for himself and family. But he can’t make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people.”

— Will Rogers

85. “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

— Will Rogers

86. “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.”

— Will Rogers

87. “There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.”

— Will Rogers

88. “All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.”

— Will Rogers

89. “There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.”

— Will Rogers

90. “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn’t necessary.”

— Will Rogers

91. “The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.”

— Will Rogers

92. “The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.”

— Will Rogers

93. “People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.”

— Will Rogers

94. “I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”

— Will Rogers

95. “We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.”

— Will Rogers

96. “Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.”

— Will Rogers

97. “You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”

— Will Rogers

98. “People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”

— Will Rogers

99. “Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.”

— Will Rogers

100. “Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.”

— Will Rogers