1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

That’s the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain’t eating.

Foreign relations is an open book – generally a checkbook.

The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children’s playgrounds.

You must judge a man’s greatness by how much he will be missed.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him ‘father.’

If you don’t like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it’ll change.

You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally – did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, ‘Who among us on salary are earning our income?’