1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

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

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.

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don’t have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon’s Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.

You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can’t see the funny side of the other fellow.

A Democrat is just like a baby. If it’s hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it’s quiet and doesn’t pay much attention to anything, that’s when it’s really dangerous.

When you’re through learning, you’re through.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

In Europe public men do resign. But here it’s a lost art. You have to impeach ’em.