Famous Quotes by Will Rogers (76 Quotations)

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.

Will Rogers – [Adversity]

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.

Will Rogers – [Biography]

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Will Rogers – [Politicians and Politics]

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

Will Rogers – [Experts]

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Will Rogers – [Elections]

There should be one day when there is open season on senators.

Will Rogers – [Congress]

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Will Rogers – [Cinema]

Things will get better — despite our efforts to improve them.

Will Rogers – [Improvement]

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Will Rogers – [Congress]

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Will Rogers – [Politicians and Politics]

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

Will Rogers – [Automobiles]

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Will Rogers – [Heroes and Heroism]

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do — well, that's Memoirs.

Will Rogers – [Autobiography]

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

Will Rogers – [Congress]

You can't say that civilization don't advance… for in every war they kill you a new way.

Will Rogers – [Progress]

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Will Rogers – [Memory]