Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
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
Parades
Participants
Prison
Subject
Subjects
Term
Classed
Nuisance
More quotes by Will Rogers
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
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers
I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.
Will Rogers
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.
Will Rogers
When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.
Will Rogers
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
Will Rogers
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Will Rogers
I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
Will Rogers
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.
Will Rogers
When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.
Will Rogers
Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.
Will Rogers
We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.
Will Rogers
If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change.
Will Rogers
Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.
Will Rogers
The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.
Will Rogers
The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
Will Rogers
No party is as bad as its leaders.
Will Rogers
There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.
Will Rogers