What Would Will Rogers Say?

Got an email the other day full of Will Rogers quotes. I thought about posting, until I researched the email, couldn't verify it, and found the identical quotes posted all over the net. So, in an effort to "think different" I hereby present some Will Rogers quotes direct from the Will Rogers Memorial Archives.

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Notable Quotes

All I know is what I read in the papers.

They may call me a rube and a hick, but I'd a lot rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.

This country is not where it is today on account of any one man. It is here on account of the real common sense of the Big Normal Majority.

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

People talk peace. But men give their life's work to war. It won't stop 'til there is as much brains and scientific study put to aid peace as there is to promote war.

Take diplomacy out of a war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

Nowadays it is about as big a crime to be dumb as it is to be dishonest.

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Personally, I have always felt the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what's the matter. He's just got to know.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.

No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Don't gamble. Take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it til it goes up then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept but they can be understood.

We'll hold the distinction of being the only Nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Copyright © 1994, Will Rogers Memorial Archives