Quotes from Will Rogers

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

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.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.

Know what you're doing, love what you're doing, and believe in what you're doing.

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.

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

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.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

Don't invite me if you don't want me.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

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.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

There ain't nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us, and that's selfishness.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.