Will Rogers on dying

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. 

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on good judgment

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. 

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on consumption

Too many people spend money they earned... to buy things they don't want... to impress people that they don't like.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on Congress

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on government

Thank goodness we don't get all the government we pay for.

~ Will Rogers

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Will Rogers on civilization and war

You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

~ Will Rogers, New York Times, December 23, 1929

Will Rogers on income taxes

Income Tax has made more Liars out of American people than Golf.

~ Will Rogers, The Illiterate Digest (1924)

Will Rogers on Prohibition

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on winning an argument

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

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on the Constitution

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on the busybody state

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on lawyers

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on liberty

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on knowledge

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

~ Will Rogers

(This quote is likely misattributed.)

Will Rogers on success

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on advertising

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on "dumping"

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on celebrity

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

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on war

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

~ Will Rogers

Will Rogers on government

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

~ Will Rogers