Top 500 Will Rogers Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “The Schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.”

— Will Rogers

202. “The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.”

— Will Rogers

203. “It’s getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can’t afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.”

— Will Rogers

204. “There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.”

— Will Rogers

205. “Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.”

— Will Rogers

206. “The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.”

— Will Rogers

207. “Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!”

— Will Rogers

208. “The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it’s in the way that it’s spent.”

— Will Rogers

209. “That’s the trouble with a politician’s life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.”

— Will Rogers

210. “Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.”

— Will Rogers

211. “Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.”

— Will Rogers

212. “A Democrat is just like a baby. If it’s hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it’s quiet and doesn’t pay much attention to anything, that’s when it’s really dangerous.”

— Will Rogers

213. “You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don’t have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.”

— Will Rogers

214. “Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat.”

— Will Rogers

215. “We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.”

— Will Rogers

216. “I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.”

— Will Rogers

217. “If you feel the urge, don’t be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?”

— Will Rogers

218. “Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.”

— Will Rogers

219. “If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?”

— Will Rogers

220. “One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.”

— Will Rogers

221. “A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.”

— Will Rogers

222. “Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”

— Will Rogers

223. “Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.”

— Will Rogers

224. “My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there’s nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.”

— Will Rogers

225. “If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.”

— Will Rogers

226. “I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.”

— Will Rogers

227. “More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.”

— Will Rogers

228. “Baseball is a skilled game. It’s America’s game – it, and high taxes.”

— Will Rogers

229. “The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.”

— Will Rogers

230. “I don’t think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You’ve got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.”

— Will Rogers

231. “The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.”

— Will Rogers

232. “I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.”

— Will Rogers

233. “When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.”

— Will Rogers

234. “See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails.”

— Will Rogers

235. “I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn’t like.”

— Will Rogers

236. “The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.”

— Will Rogers

237. “There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain’t a thing.”

— Will Rogers

238. “There are two things I don’t care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist’s testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.”

— Will Rogers

239. “Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.”

— Will Rogers

240. “The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.”

— Will Rogers

241. “A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.”

— Will Rogers

242. “Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can’t kill you, it will put you out of work.”

— Will Rogers

243. “Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.”

— Will Rogers

244. “The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.”

— Will Rogers

245. “If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.”

— Will Rogers

246. “There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man’s belief.”

— Will Rogers

247. “Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell’em what they will do.”

— Will Rogers

248. “I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.”

— Will Rogers

249. “I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn’t like.”

— Will Rogers

250. “We fed ’em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas.”

— Will Rogers