1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

The English should give Ireland home rule – and reserve the motion picture rights.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don’t hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn’t know anything else.

You can’t fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn’t necessary.

Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington’s diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That’s beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it’s read.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.

I never met a man I didn’t get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.