Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.
Will Rogers
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Would
Time
Worrying
Seriously
Congress
Took
Worry
More quotes by Will Rogers
Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
Will Rogers
Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Will Rogers
I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.
Will Rogers
You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
Will Rogers
Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
Will Rogers
This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
Will Rogers
A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.
Will Rogers
In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell
Will Rogers
It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.
Will Rogers
Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach
Will Rogers
The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.
Will Rogers
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
Will Rogers
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Will Rogers
Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?
Will Rogers
The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
Will Rogers
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.
Will Rogers
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Will Rogers
Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.
Will Rogers
We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.
Will Rogers
The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.
Will Rogers