Quotes from Will Rogers

I have always claimed America didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.

Why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth.

What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask.

There is a lot of people who got Confidence, but they are careful who they have it in. We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?

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

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.