Quote

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.

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
Ones
Minutes
Strange
Friends
Words
Understand
Writing
Ems
Love
Minute

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere
Will Rogers
Image
He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
Will Rogers
Image
There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Will Rogers
Image
In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know
Will Rogers
Image
In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
Will Rogers
Image
If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.
Will Rogers
Image
All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.
Will Rogers
Image
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.
Will Rogers
Image
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
Image
Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
Will Rogers
Image
I don't know what humor is.
Will Rogers
Image
A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.
Will Rogers
Image
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
Will Rogers
Image
You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
Will Rogers
Image
The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.
Will Rogers
Image
There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.
Will Rogers
Image
Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.
Will Rogers
Image
You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.
Will Rogers
Image
If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.
Will Rogers
Image
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
Will Rogers