Quote

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

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
America
Inventions
Nothing
Odd
Many
Invention
Think
Somewhere
Thinking
Nation
Gets
Nations
Getting
Conceives

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
Will Rogers
Image
Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
Will Rogers
Image
Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.
Will Rogers
Image
Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.
Will Rogers
Image
I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
Will Rogers
Image
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Will Rogers
Image
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
Will Rogers
Image
If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.
Will Rogers
Image
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
Will Rogers
Image
The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.
Will Rogers
Image
If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.
Will Rogers
Image
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
Will Rogers
Image
Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.
Will Rogers
Image
There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
Will Rogers
Image
People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.
Will Rogers
Image
In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.
Will Rogers
Image
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
Will Rogers
Image
I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.
Will Rogers
Image
The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Will Rogers
Image
I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.
Will Rogers