1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in the open naked, and they wouldent put their clothes on? The authorities finally turned a Sprayer that you use on trees, on 'em. That may lead into quite a thing. Woman comes into the tax office nude, saying I won't pay. Well they can't search her and get anything. It sounds great. How far is it to British Columbia?

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.

Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?

Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.