Will Rogers Quotes

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.

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

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

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

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‘n puttin’ it back in.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Democrats never agree on anything, that’s why they’re Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

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.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

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