Quote

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

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
Behind
Looking
Tell
Around
Must
Men
Thinking
Like
Behinds

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Will Rogers
Image
The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.
Will Rogers
Image
Know what you're doing, love what you're doing, and believe in what you're doing.
Will Rogers
Image
You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
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
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
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers
Image
There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.
Will Rogers
Image
Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.
Will Rogers
Image
Common sense ain't common.
Will Rogers
Image
There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people
Will Rogers
Image
It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
Will Rogers
Image
Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.
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
There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans.
Will Rogers
Image
Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
Will Rogers
Image
We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.
Will Rogers
Image
Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.
Will Rogers
Image
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers
Image
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Will Rogers