Will Rogers Quotes

American Actor
Born: November 4, 1879
Died: August 15, 1935

No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

I never met a man I didn't get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.

That's the trouble with our charities, we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.

A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.

When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.

We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.

If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.

There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.

They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.

Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.

Work to make a living, serve to make a life.

If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.

With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.