Will Rogers

60 quotations
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
Will Rogers · Memory
You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
Will Rogers · Memory
All I know is just what I read in the papers.
Will Rogers · Newspapers
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.
Will Rogers · Nudity
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
Will Rogers · Opinions
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Will Rogers · Opinions
We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
Will Rogers · Automobiles
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
No party is as bad as its leaders.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
Will Rogers · Praise
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Will Rogers · Praise
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Will Rogers · Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
Will Rogers · Speakers and Speaking
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers · Stupidity
Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will Rogers · Change
Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
Will Rogers · Taxes and Taxation
The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Will Rogers · Taxes and Taxation
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
Will Rogers · Truth
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
Will Rogers · Virtue
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers · Worth

Subjects Will Rogers spoke about

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