Quotes by Will Rogers

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

"A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles."

"A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it."

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

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

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

"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."

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

"If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics."

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing."

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"

"Income Tax has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf."

"Live your life so that whenever you lose, you're ahead."

"One way to solve the traffic problem would be to keep all the cars that aren't paid for off the streets."

"Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything."

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money to even be defeated."

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

"The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?"

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

"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."