1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

Nothing makes a man or body of men as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it they laugh it off.

A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.

The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'

You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.

So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Don't have an ideal to work for. That's like riding towards the mirage of a lake.

Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.

I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.