Quote

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

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
Like
Deal
World
Theory
Deals
Pretty
Traveled
Running
Foreign
Country
Countries
Right
Travel
Good
Along

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.
Will Rogers
Image
Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.
Will Rogers
Image
I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.
Will Rogers
Image
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
Will Rogers
Image
There is a horse here-the furthest north of any horse, and he eats fish and travels on snowshoes.
Will Rogers
Image
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
Will Rogers
Image
If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.
Will Rogers
Image
America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.
Will Rogers
Image
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
Will Rogers
Image
Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
Will Rogers
Image
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible
Will Rogers
Image
If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.
Will Rogers
Image
Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Will Rogers
Image
We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.
Will Rogers
Image
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Will Rogers
Image
You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.
Will Rogers
Image
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
Will Rogers
Image
There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.
Will Rogers
Image
We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.
Will Rogers
Image
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.
Will Rogers