Top 500 Will Rogers Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.”

— Will Rogers

52. “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

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

55. “There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.”

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

58. “Always drink upstream from the herd.”

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

73. “Common sense ain’t common.”

— Will Rogers

74. “Lord, let me live until I die.”

— Will Rogers

75. “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

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

85. “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

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

88. “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

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

100. “Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.”

— Will Rogers