Will Rogers Quotes

William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social commentator, and stage and motion picture actor.

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

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
   
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
   
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
   
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
   
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
   
Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.
   
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
   
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.
   
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
   
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
   
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
   
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
   
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
   
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
   
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
   
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.
   
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
   
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

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