Quote

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

Will Rogers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
Politician
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
William Rogers
Land
Making
Stuff
Economics
Financial
Advice

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Will Rogers
Image
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Will Rogers
Image
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
Will Rogers
Image
Never miss a chance to shut up
Will Rogers
Image
Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.
Will Rogers
Image
We fed 'em Xmas and New Years now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas
Will Rogers
Image
There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no luncheon clubs, no stop lights, no static, no head winds. My Lord, living in those days, who wouldn't be great?
Will Rogers
Image
I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
Will Rogers
Image
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers
Image
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers
Image
The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
Will Rogers
Image
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Will Rogers
Image
There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.
Will Rogers
Image
My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.
Will Rogers
Image
I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.
Will Rogers
Image
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers
Image
Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely
Will Rogers
Image
Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
Will Rogers
Image
You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.
Will Rogers
Image
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers