Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Quotes

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

• Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes.

• 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.

• The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

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

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

• I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

• If studidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

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

• There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

• I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.

• Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

• I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

• I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

• If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

• Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

• Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

• Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

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

• Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.