Top 500 Will Rogers Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “It’s almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.”

— Will Rogers

152. “I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.”

— Will Rogers

153. “When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.”

— Will Rogers

154. “A company is known by the people it keeps.”

— Will Rogers

155. “We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.”

— Will Rogers

156. “We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give ’em plenty of publicity.”

— Will Rogers

157. “Texas is a great state. It’s the ‘Old Man River’ of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!”

— Will Rogers

158. “Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won’t work.”

— Will Rogers

159. “The US is safest when Congress is in recess.”

— Will Rogers

160. “I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!”

— Will Rogers

161. “Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

— Will Rogers

162. “Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans.”

— Will Rogers

163. “If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.”

— Will Rogers

164. “In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.”

— Will Rogers

165. “Don’t squat with your spurs on.”

— Will Rogers

166. “Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”

— Will Rogers

167. “The problem ain’t what people know. It’s what people know that ain’t so that’s the problem.”

— Will Rogers

168. “Common sense is not an issue in politics – it’s an affliction.”

— Will Rogers

169. “No man is great if he thinks he is.”

— Will Rogers

170. “The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.”

— Will Rogers

171. “There’s a simple solution to our traffic problems. We’ll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.”

— Will Rogers

172. “Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.”

— Will Rogers

173. “The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.”

— Will Rogers

174. “A fool and his money are soon elected.”

— Will Rogers

175. “The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.”

— Will Rogers

176. “I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”

— Will Rogers

177. “Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.”

— Will Rogers

178. “You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.”

— Will Rogers

179. “The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.”

— Will Rogers

180. “Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.”

— Will Rogers

181. “Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don’t hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.”

— Will Rogers

182. “Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.”

— Will Rogers

183. “Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of ’em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they’ve been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.”

— Will Rogers

184. “The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.”

— Will Rogers

185. “The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.”

— Will Rogers

186. “I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.”

— Will Rogers

187. “Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb.”

— Will Rogers

188. “Ignorance lies not in the things you don’t know, but in the things you know that ain’t so.”

— Will Rogers

189. “I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.”

— Will Rogers

190. “In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain’t half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.”

— Will Rogers

191. “The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.”

— Will Rogers

192. “The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made ’em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.”

— Will Rogers

193. “In a real estate man’s eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell.”

— Will Rogers

194. “Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.”

— Will Rogers

195. “Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.”

— Will Rogers

196. “I don’t know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.”

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

198. “People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.”

— Will Rogers

199. “Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.”

— Will Rogers

200. “There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don’t take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again.”

— Will Rogers