Quote

Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

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
Girls
Wisdom
Verge
Girl
Sending
Mother
Nowadays
School
Mighty
America
Shocked
Mothers
Reform

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.
Will Rogers
Image
People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.
Will Rogers
Image
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
Will Rogers
Image
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Will Rogers
Image
If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.
Will Rogers
Image
I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your Gags, and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.
Will Rogers
Image
Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb
Will Rogers
Image
One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else
Will Rogers
Image
I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.
Will Rogers
Image
You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it.
Will Rogers
Image
Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.
Will Rogers
Image
There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
Will Rogers
Image
The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.
Will Rogers
Image
We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.
Will Rogers
Image
A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.
Will Rogers
Image
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers
Image
I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.
Will Rogers
Image
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.
Will Rogers
Image
No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Will Rogers
Image
A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.
Will Rogers