Will Rogers Quotes and its meanings

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

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

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.