Will Rogers Quotes

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers

Today, Yesterday

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

Truth, Hurts, Generally

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

Person, Found, Ignorant

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers

Government, Democracy, Keep

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers

Education, Work, Living

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
Will Rogers

Politics, Truth, Injected

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers

Action, Inaction, Chaotic

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

Life, Time, Through

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

Business, Good, Else

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
Will Rogers

Writing, Learned, Write

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
Will Rogers

Government, Country, Run

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

Making, Stuff, Land

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers

Legal, Become, Pay

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Will Rogers

Ignorance, Started, Knows

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
Will Rogers

Government, Since, President

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

Family, Live, Gossip

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers

Business, Why, Able

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

While, Hand, Company

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
Will Rogers

Liars, Made, Golf

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

Laugh, Cry, Onion

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers

Sports, Hate, Yourself

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
Will Rogers

Money, Government, Keep

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

Stupid, Nothing, Him

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers

Drunks, Protects, Senators

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 4, 1879

Died: August 15, 1935

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