Quotes from Will Rogers

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.

We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.

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

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.

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

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

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

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

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

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

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.