1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus 1.

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.

Just been talking today out here to all the Senators investigating these stock swindles and overcapitalizations. There has been hundreds of millions lost. There ought to be some form of guardianship for people that buy all this junk. Education won't do it. The buyers are the ones we have educated up till they are just smart enough to fall for everything that comes along.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.

We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

I am a Cherokee and it's the proudest little possession I ever hope to have.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.