1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.

Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for -- to tell congress the condition of the country. This message, as I say, is to Congress. The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell 'em.

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.