Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due. Will Rogers More Quotes by Will Rogers More Quotes From Will Rogers If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on. Will Rogers wall government running We do more talking progress than we do progressing. Will Rogers progress talking Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. Will Rogers nuisance parades prison They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been. Will Rogers over-you dying running The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity. Will Rogers stupidity intellectual people Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt. Will Rogers feet exercise golf In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough. Will Rogers territory being-there life Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf. Will Rogers long-ago golf men A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on. Will Rogers president night thinking Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there. Will Rogers law men years We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it. Will Rogers business law men The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer. Will Rogers few-words giving mean There is nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating Will Rogers eating world The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Will Rogers horse gone country Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline. Will Rogers farmers gasoline horse I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today. Will Rogers horse eating today Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance. Will Rogers giving-up europe men It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute. Will Rogers reputation minutes lifetime A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time. Will Rogers debt government pay 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 income pay men
