Will Rogers Quotes
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do - well, that’s Memoirs.
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run ... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics … Even the ministers are denouncing it now … Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Letting the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back.
We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.
Variant:
We are all here for a spell. Get all the good laughs you can.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
The whole thing is a racket, so get a few laughs, do the best you can, take nothing for serious. Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappointment.
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
Variant:
Do the best you can, take nothing for serious.
I never met a man that I didn't like.
We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
