Quotes from Will Rogers
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
- Will Rogers
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
- Will Rogers
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
- Will Rogers
We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
- Will Rogers
I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
- Will Rogers
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
- Will Rogers
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.
- Will Rogers
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
- Will Rogers
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
- Will Rogers
On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
- Will Rogers
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
- Will Rogers
Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
- Will Rogers