1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

Lord, let me live until I die.

We do more talking progress than we do progressing.

George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity

Know what you're doing, love what you're doing, and believe in what you're doing.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership'.