1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.

It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back.