1,171 Quotes by Will Rogers

The movies enable an actor not only to act but also to sit down in the theater and clap for himself

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.

A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.