Will Rogers Quotes

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

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

Politics is applesauce.

Ignorance lies not in the things you don’t know, but in the things you know that ain’t so.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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.

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

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

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

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

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.

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

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.