1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn’t know history. He don’t know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How is the president?’

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn’t have to pay anything if he didn’t make it.

We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give ’em plenty of publicity.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it’s in the way that it’s spent.

Now they got such a high inheritance tax on ’em that you won’t catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.