110+ Will Rogers Quotes On Politics, Death And Aging

Will Rogers was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator, and motion picture actor. He was one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s and was the top-paid Hollywood movie star at the time. He was known for his wit and humor, as well as his ability to make people laugh. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Will Rogers on politics, death, aging.

Top 10 Will Rogers Quotes

1. There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence to see for themselves.
2. Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
3. When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
4. People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
5. The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
6. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
7. Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
8. Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.
9. The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
10. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

Will Rogers Image Quotes

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. — Will Rogers

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. — Will Rogers

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. — Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. — Will Rogers

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

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. — Will Rogers

A fool and his money are soon elected. — Will Rogers

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. — Will Rogers

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging. — Will Rogers

I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Short Quotes

• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
• If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
• My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
• Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
• When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.
• We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
• What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
• This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.
• Don't squat with your spurs on.
• Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.

Will Rogers Quotes About Politics

I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World. — Will Rogers

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans — Will Rogers

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. — Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. — Will Rogers

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. — Will Rogers

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on. — Will Rogers

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be. — Will Rogers

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times. — Will Rogers

If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics. — Will Rogers

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Death

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. — Will Rogers

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned. — Will Rogers

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Aging

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for. — Will Rogers

I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top. — Will Rogers

You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks. — Will Rogers

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. — Will Rogers

We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Success

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. — Will Rogers

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. — Will Rogers

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach — Will Rogers

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it. — Will Rogers

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

If you want to be successful, love what you are doing. — Will Rogers

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Work

I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened. — Will Rogers

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. — Will Rogers

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work. — Will Rogers

Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors. — Will Rogers

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. — Will Rogers

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works. — Will Rogers

I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better. — Will Rogers

There's no trick to being humorous when you have the whole government working for you. — Will Rogers

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses. — Will Rogers

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Politicians

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary. — Will Rogers

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver. — Will Rogers

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes. — Will Rogers

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. — Will Rogers

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world. — Will Rogers

Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records. — Will Rogers

Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington. — Will Rogers

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury. — Will Rogers

It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something. — Will Rogers

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Money

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. — Will Rogers

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. — Will Rogers

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money. — Will Rogers

A fool and his money are soon elected. — Will Rogers

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

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

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have. — Will Rogers

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. — Will Rogers

If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money. — Will Rogers

The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Life

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. — Will Rogers

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. — Will Rogers

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around. — Will Rogers

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. — Will Rogers

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot. — Will Rogers

You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for. — Will Rogers

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. — Will Rogers

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

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough. — Will Rogers

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Leadership

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. — Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.' — Will Rogers

The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Humorous

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there — Will Rogers

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco. — Will Rogers

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. — Will Rogers

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income. — Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one. — Will Rogers

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match. — Will Rogers

Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week. — Will Rogers

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy. — Will Rogers

The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words. — Will Rogers

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About People

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. — Will Rogers

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. — Will Rogers

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. — Will Rogers

Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair. — Will Rogers

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. — Will Rogers

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. — Will Rogers

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. — Will Rogers

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. — Will Rogers

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone. — Will Rogers

A company is known by the people it keeps. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Read

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. — Will Rogers

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. — Will Rogers

Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week. — Will Rogers

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them. — Will Rogers

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is. — Will Rogers

All I know is just what I read in the papers. — Will Rogers

Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it. — Will Rogers

I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call. — Will Rogers

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read. — Will Rogers

You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Congress

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

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

It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered. — Will Rogers

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

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do. — Will Rogers

You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it. — Will Rogers

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out. — Will Rogers

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

This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one. — Will Rogers

The US is safest when Congress is in recess. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers Quotes About Nation

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one. — Will Rogers

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace. — Will Rogers

No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans. — Will Rogers

You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone. — Will Rogers

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. — Will Rogers

There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book. — Will Rogers

Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship. — Will Rogers

I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They kill the bull very quick. Wall Street lets you live and suffer. — Will Rogers

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there. — Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers Famous Quotes And Sayings

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. — Will Rogers

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. — Will Rogers

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. — Will Rogers

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 — Will Rogers

The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands. — Will Rogers

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

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. — Will Rogers

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

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? — Will Rogers

A fool and his money are soon elected. — Will Rogers

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. — Will Rogers

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging. — Will Rogers

I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened. — Will Rogers

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson. — Will Rogers

Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. — Will Rogers

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

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

Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on. — Will Rogers

If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway? — Will Rogers

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking. — Will Rogers

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. — Will Rogers

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. — Will Rogers

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers

Always drink upstream from the herd. — Will Rogers

Never miss a chance to shut up — Will Rogers

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet. — Will Rogers

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. — Will Rogers

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can. — Will Rogers

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. — Will Rogers

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

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. — Will Rogers

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. — Will Rogers

Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb — Will Rogers

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up. — Will Rogers

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. — Will Rogers

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. — Will Rogers

See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan. — Will Rogers

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? — Will Rogers

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment. — Will Rogers

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got. — Will Rogers

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

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. — Will Rogers

Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals — Will Rogers

Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment. — Will Rogers

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good. — Will Rogers

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. — Will Rogers

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in. — Will Rogers

Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down. — Will Rogers

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else. — Will Rogers

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. — Will Rogers

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

Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper. — Will Rogers

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis? — Will Rogers

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. — Will Rogers

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way. — Will Rogers

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

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects. — Will Rogers

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due. — Will Rogers

Life Lessons by Will Rogers

1. Will Rogers taught us to live life with optimism, humor, and humility. He believed that life should be enjoyed, not endured, and that it is important to treat others with respect and kindness.
2. He also taught us to think for ourselves and to not be afraid to question authority. He encouraged us to be independent and to not be afraid to stand up for what we believe in.
3. Lastly, Will Rogers taught us to never take ourselves too seriously and to appreciate the little things in life. He believed that we should live life to the fullest and find joy in the small moments.