Will Rogers Quotes

We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

It’s great to be great but it’s greater to be human.

When a man goes in for politics over here, he has no time to labour, and any man that labours has no time to fool with politics. Over there, politics is an obligation; over here it’s a business.

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn’t know anything else.

The United States is the only country ever to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Communism is like prohibition, it’s a good idea but it won’t work.

I bet you if I had met him and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn’t like.

The Income Tax return has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don’t know when it’s through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will you please tell me what you do with all the vice presidents a bank has?… The United States is the biggest business institution in the world and they only have one vice president and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.