A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

Nothing you can’t spell will ever work.
- Will Rogers

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
- Will Rogers

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
- Will Rogers

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

Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‘n puttin’ it back in.
- Will Rogers

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
- Will Rogers

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
- Will Rogers

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

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
- Will Rogers

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
- Will Rogers

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
- Will Rogers

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
- Will Rogers

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
- Will Rogers

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
- Will Rogers

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
- Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- Will Rogers

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

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.
- Will Rogers

Politics is applesauce.
- Will Rogers

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
- Will Rogers

Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.
- Will Rogers

See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails?
- Will Rogers

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
- Will Rogers

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
- Will Rogers

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.
- Will Rogers

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
- Will Rogers

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- Will Rogers

A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.
- Will Rogers

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
- Will Rogers

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

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
- 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 years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
- Will Rogers

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
- Will Rogers

You can’t say that civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers