Top 500 Will Rogers Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.”

— Will Rogers

352. “Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.”

— Will Rogers

353. “You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can’t see the funny side of the other fellow.”

— Will Rogers

354. “The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.”

— Will Rogers

355. “My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can’t remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.”

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

357. “A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.”

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

359. “I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they’ll get me someday.”

— Will Rogers

360. “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

361. “If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn’t have it put us where we are today. Saving when we’ve got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.”

— Will Rogers

362. “Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.”

— Will Rogers

363. “Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington’s diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.”

— Will Rogers

364. “Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.”

— Will Rogers

365. “If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.”

— Will Rogers

366. “After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.”

— Will Rogers

367. “If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.”

— Will Rogers

368. “We cuss Congress, and we joke about ’em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn’t in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.”

— Will Rogers

369. “Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don’t know when it’s through if you are a crook or a martyr.”

— Will Rogers

370. “Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.”

— Will Rogers

371. “Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.”

— Will Rogers

372. “In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.”

— Will Rogers

373. “Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.”

— Will Rogers

374. “You never know how much a man can’t remember until he is called as a witness.”

— Will Rogers

375. “Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they’re doing. Amen.”

— Will Rogers

376. “Any person that don’t read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.”

— Will Rogers

377. “The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.”

— Will Rogers

378. “The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.”

— Will Rogers

379. “I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him ‘father.’”

— Will Rogers

380. “There isn’t any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.”

— Will Rogers

381. “It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.”

— Will Rogers

382. “The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.”

— Will Rogers

383. “Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can’t ruin this country even with politics.”

— Will Rogers

384. “We all joke about Congress but we can’t improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?”

— Will Rogers

385. “I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain’t.”

— Will Rogers

386. “Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.”

— Will Rogers

387. “It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.”

— Will Rogers

388. “In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.”

— Will Rogers

389. “There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.”

— Will Rogers

390. “I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.”

— Will Rogers

391. “Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.”

— Will Rogers

392. “That’s the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain’t eating.”

— Will Rogers

393. “It’s one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.”

— Will Rogers

394. “The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.”

— Will Rogers

395. “A holding company is the people you give your money to while you’re being searched.”

— Will Rogers

396. “It would drive a person crazy to dope out really what does divide the two parties. Prosperity don’t divide the two parties, for under either administration the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.”

— Will Rogers

397. “Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.”

— Will Rogers

398. “I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.”

— Will Rogers

399. “In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.”

— Will Rogers

400. “They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon’s Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.”

— Will Rogers