I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Women
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Defeat, Politics
Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Driving
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Action, Difficulties, Difficulty
I don’t know what humor is.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Ignorance
We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Desires
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Virtues, Virtue
Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach.
—Will Rogers
Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody else’s religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
—Will Rogers
Topics: Religion
Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.
—Will Rogers
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Government
A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Trouble
A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Open-mindedness
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Law
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Worry
You’ve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
—Will Rogers
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
Topics: Government
Live so that you wouldn
—Will Rogers
Topics: Gossip
It’s great to be great, but it’s greater to be human.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Humankind, Humanity
This depression was deep, and you don’t climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.
—Will Rogers
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
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Religion
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Memory
It doesn’t much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Marriage
I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
—Will Rogers
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Praise
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
—Will Rogers
You know you’ve got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.
—Will Rogers
That’s what makes us a great nation. We take the little things serious, and the big ones as a joke.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Jokes
If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
—Will Rogers
Topics: Politics, Truth
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