Quote

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

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
Hope
Live
Thing
Make
Never
Journalism
Newspapers

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?
Will Rogers
Image
A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.
Will Rogers
Image
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
Will Rogers
Image
This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.
Will Rogers
Image
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers
Image
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Will Rogers
Image
There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.
Will Rogers
Image
We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.
Will Rogers
Image
I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
Will Rogers
Image
In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell
Will Rogers
Image
You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.
Will Rogers
Image
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Will Rogers
Image
In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
Will Rogers
Image
America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.
Will Rogers
Image
You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.
Will Rogers
Image
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
Will Rogers
Image
Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.
Will Rogers
Image
The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.
Will Rogers
Image
Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
Will Rogers
Image
If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.
Will Rogers