1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.