1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

Just because it’s common sense, doesn’t mean it’s common practice.

Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can’t pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it’s not to his horsemanship.

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there’s nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

Texas is a great state. It’s the ‘Old Man River’ of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn’t produced even a good Congressman.

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can’t remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President.

I have always claimed Americans didn’t want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

But we can’t alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn’t have it. Now he’s got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don’t know what to do.