Quotes from Will Rogers

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

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

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

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

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

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

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

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

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

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.

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.

A fool and his money are soon elected.