“Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”
– Will Rogers
“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”
– Will Rogers
“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.”
– Will Rogers
“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”
– Will Rogers
“The United States never lost a war or won a conference.”
– Will Rogers
“I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”
– Will Rogers
“Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.”
– Will Rogers
“You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.”
– Will Rogers
“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.”
– Will Rogers
“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.”
– Will Rogers
“In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.”
– Will Rogers
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
– Will Rogers
“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”
– Will Rogers
“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
“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”
– Will Rogers
“Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.”
– Will Rogers
“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
“Politics is applesauce.”
– Will Rogers
“The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.”
– Will Rogers
“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.”
– Will Rogers
“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
– Will Rogers
“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”
– Will Rogers
“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
– Will Rogers
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
– Will Rogers
“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.”
– Will Rogers
“There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.”
– Will Rogers
“The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How is the president?’”
– Will Rogers
“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.”
– Will Rogers
“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.”
– Will Rogers
“If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.”
– Will Rogers