A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Will Rogers

A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
Will Rogers

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Will Rogers

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Will Rogers

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
Will Rogers

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Will Rogers


America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Will Rogers

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

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
Will Rogers

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will Rogers

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
Will Rogers

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers