1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.

The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation.

People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.

American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.