Will Rogers Quotes

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers

Men, Learn, Few

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers

Funny, Political, Party

A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers

Politics, Money, Fool

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will Rogers

Everything, Joke, Seriously

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Will Rogers

Love, Successful, Simple

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers

Funny, Government, Thankful

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers

Time, Death, Between

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers

Good, Experience, Bad

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
Will Rogers

Why, Agree, Democrats

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers

Today, Yesterday

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

Politics, Money, Become

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers

Nothing, Country, Started

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers

Art, Nice, Rock

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers

Prayer, Lord, Rest

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers

Government, Happen, Both

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers

Politics, Government, Facts

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Will Rogers

Prayer, United, Closes

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers

Equality, True, Learned

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers

Run, Sit, Track

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers

Learning, Two, Reading

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
Will Rogers

Important, Vote, Left

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

War, Nation, Last

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Will Rogers

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers

Good, Money, Learning

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Will Rogers

Opinion, Makes, Difference

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 4, 1879

Died: August 15, 1935

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