Quotes by Will Rogers

"He who seeks peace must remember that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"The United States never lost a war or won a conference."

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

"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."

"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."

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

"Politics is applesauce."

"The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you."

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

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

"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."

"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."

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

"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."

"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"To master the mind is to understand that the canvas of tomorrow is painted with the actions of today."

"Never underestimate the power of the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

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

"A fool and his money are soon elected."

"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."

"We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can."

"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."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."

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

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."

"To conquer fear is to realize that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"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."

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

"Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious."

"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself."

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

"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'"

"In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time."

"The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got."

"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."

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

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."

"A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth."

"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."

"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."

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

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

"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."

"The silent observer understands that the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."

"To walk the path of enlightenment means joy is found not in possessing, but in appreciating."

"In the depths of adversity, the true master is an eternal student."

"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education."

"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."

"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."

"A humble soul understands that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"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."

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

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that a grateful heart is a magnet for miracles."

"A peaceful heart knows that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"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."

"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."

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

"People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide."

"To dream is to realize that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail."

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."

"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."