1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.

We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.

A man gets up to speak and says nothing . . . nobody listens . . . and then everybody disagrees.

Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

This is the only country that ever went to the poorhouse in an automobile.

This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.