Will Rogers Quotes

“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.”

“People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.”

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

“We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.”

“People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.”

“I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.”

“Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.”

“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”

“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.”

“I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.”

“Lord, let me live until I die.”

“I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.”

“I don't know what humor is.”

“They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.”

“I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.”

“Always drink upstream from the herd.”

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

“I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.”

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

“There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.”

“The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?”

“Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.”

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

“Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere”

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