1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.

If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.

That's one good thing about wars. It takes smarter men to figure out who loses 'em than it does to start 'em.

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

We are always saying let the law take its course, but what we mean is 'Let the law take our course.'

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.