Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
Will Rogers

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Will Rogers

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
Kurt Cobain

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
W. C. Fields

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
W. C. Fields

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William Shakespeare

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert Frost

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost