Quotes by Will Rogers

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

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

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

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

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

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

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

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

Education

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

— Will Rogers

Life

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

— Will Rogers

Success

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

— Will Rogers

Life

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

— Will Rogers

Education

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

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

— Will Rogers

Education

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

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

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

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

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

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

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

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

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

Success

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

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

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

— Will Rogers

Wisdom

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

— Will Rogers

Wisdom