People Quotes by Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.

— Will Rogers

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

— Will Rogers

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.

— Will Rogers

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

— Will Rogers

The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't…

— Will Rogers

Don't wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they…

— Will Rogers

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

— Will Rogers

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

— 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…

— Will Rogers

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

— Will Rogers

There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.

— 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…

— Will Rogers

Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered…

— Will Rogers

I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it…

— Will Rogers

Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see…

— Will Rogers

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five…

— 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…

— Will Rogers

This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it…

— Will Rogers

But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all…

— Will Rogers

There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people…

— Will Rogers

Just been talking today out here to all the Senators investigating these stock swindles and overcapitalizations. There has been hundreds of millions…

— Will Rogers

Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was…

— Will Rogers

So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything…

— Will Rogers

The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you…

— Will Rogers

Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for --…

— Will Rogers

Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it…

— Will Rogers

If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear…

— Will Rogers

People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.

— Will Rogers

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

— Will Rogers

A company is known by the people it keeps.

— Will Rogers

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

— Will Rogers

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

— Will Rogers

People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers