The quotations of

Will Rogers

American humorist and entertainer

1879–1935

41 quotes, most often on Comedy, Politics and Government.

You’ve got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you’ve got to be a humorist to stay one.
Good Gulf radio show (24 June 1934)
- Comedy
- Politics
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)
- Comedy
- War & Peace
We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that’s overfilled with everything we want.
Daily Telegram #1355 (26 November 1930)
- America
- Economics
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it’s not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
The Will Rogers Book (1972)
- Government
- Money
I certainly know that [A] comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious and I don’t want either of those to happen to me til I am dead (if then).
Daily Telegram #1538 (28 June 1931)
- Humor
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
Daily Telegram number 2159, Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End (5 July 1933)
- Comedy
- War & Peace
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don’t know when it’s through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
Daily Telegram #1019, Thoughts Of Will Rogers On The Late Slumps In Stocks (31 October 1929)
- Money
If you ever injected truth into politics you’d have no politics.
Syndicated column, “A Few Shots of Scopolamin” (15 July 1923)
- Politics
- Truth & Lies
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Daily Telegram #1172, Will Rogers Sees No Value In All The Time We Save (28 April 1930)
- Time
A man that don’t love a Horse, there is something the matter with him. If he has no sympathy for the man that does love Horses, then there is something worse the matter with him.
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
- Animals

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