1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made ’em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

America is a land of opportunity and don’t ever forget it.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Common sense is not an issue in politics – it’s an affliction.

There is not a man in the country that can’t make a living for himself and family. But he can’t make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people.

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it’s almost impossible to get him to reform.