Will Rogers Quotes About Inspiration

Quotes about: Inspiration

• After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Wrestling, Mountain

• The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Law, Minutes

  "The Lawyers Talking" (1935)

• This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Baby, Inspiration

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

• If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Tails, Causes

• There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again

  Will Rogers

  Business, Inspiration, Doe

  Will Rogers (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935”

• There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

  Daily Telegram number 2678 on March 06, 1935. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

• There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people

  Will Rogers

  Country, Inspiration, Men

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

• I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Inspiration, Economics

  "The Will Rogers Scrapbook".

• An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Political Will, Justice

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 258, 1979.

• Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Inspiration, Hamilton

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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

  Will Rogers

  Movie, Business, Inspiration

  "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America". Book by Daniel Joseph Boorstein, 1963.

• Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Idols, Profession

  Newspaper article, 15 Feb. 1925, in Paula McSpadden Grove The Will Rogers Book (1961) p. 193

• Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Science, Technology

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

• We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Want, Ready

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

• I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart

  Will Rogers

  Crazy, Inspiration, Heart

• I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Country, Husband

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Biting, Fingernails

• Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals

  Will Rogers

  Taken, Inspiration, Animal

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

• I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, People, Ems

• Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it

  Will Rogers

  Fun, Inspiration, Rope

• People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, People, Ideals

• Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Political Will, Drunk

  Daily Telegram number 2678 on March 06, 1935. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

• Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Inspiration, Men

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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