82 quotes
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
You Must Remember This (1975)
I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined, or hard to check, as a socially ambitious mother.
Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.
The Quotable Will Rogers (2006)
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958)
No party is as bad as its state and national leaders.
Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
The only problem with Boy Scouts is, there aren't enough of them.
I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce.
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The Image : A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1963)
We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979)
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Creative Leadership : Mining the Gold in Your Workforce (1998)
Personally, I have always felt the best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter — he's got to just know.
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
The Illiterate Digest (1924)