Quotes from Will Rogers

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.

We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.

I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

Never miss a chance to shut up

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.