Quotes from Will Rogers

you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

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 advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him.

Well, the trip from then on across Arizona and east of Los Angeles was just one Oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there. I like Arizona.

Europe has nothing to recommend it but its old age, and the Petrified forest in Arizona makes a Sucker out of it for old age. Why, that forest was there and doing business before Nero took his first Violin lesson.

Nothing is as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated on.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.