People learn more from observation that they do from conversation. Will Rogers More Quotes by Will Rogers More Quotes From Will Rogers We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things. Will Rogers ignorant different ignorance Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed. Will Rogers wells newspapers country The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid. Will Rogers stars self sleep The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich. Will Rogers rich theatre looks We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead. Will Rogers live-your-life do-the-best laughing That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says "Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can. Will Rogers republican president boys A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous. Will Rogers noise attention baby Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances. Will Rogers dollars speech voice A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious. Will Rogers comedian lasts serious You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver. Will Rogers politician hands looks If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled Will Rogers would-be work country Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work. Will Rogers machinery killing want Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on. Will Rogers dying boys country Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off. Will Rogers mad men america I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it. Will Rogers giving war two If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics. Will Rogers political-will truth funny I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with. Will Rogers human-life gun humans When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." Will Rogers my-time mets men Congress is deadlocked and can’t act. Will Rogers congress A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read. Will Rogers guy fun history
