Quotes by Rogers, Will

"When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- well, that's Memoirs."

Rogers, Will on autobiography   

"We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile."

Rogers, Will on automobiles   

"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail."

Rogers, Will on politics   

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

Rogers, Will on politics   

"I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"No party is as bad as its leaders."

Rogers, Will on politics   

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

Rogers, Will on politics   

"Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected."

Rogers, Will on politics
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"This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good."

Rogers, Will on praise   

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

Rogers, Will on praise   

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

Rogers, Will on progress   

"One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next."

Rogers, Will on evolution   

"Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything."

Rogers, Will on speakers and speaking   

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

Rogers, Will on stupidity   

"There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs."

Rogers, Will on biography   

"Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke."

Rogers, Will on change   

"Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf."

Rogers, Will on taxes and taxation   

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

Rogers, Will on taxes and taxation   

"The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."

Rogers, Will on taxes and taxation   

"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. 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."

Rogers, Will on taxes and taxation   

"Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr."

Rogers, Will on taxes and taxation   

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

Rogers, Will on time   

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

Rogers, Will on truth   

"Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation."

Rogers, Will on virtue   

"The person 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?"

Rogers, Will on work   

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

Rogers, Will on worth   

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

Rogers, Will on action
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"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education."

Rogers, Will on cinema   

"Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."

Rogers, Will on communism and socialism   

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

Rogers, Will on communism and socialism   

"There should be one day when there is open season on senators."

Rogers, Will on congress   

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

Rogers, Will on congress   

"With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke."

Rogers, Will on congress   

"Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects. "

Rogers, Will on uncategorised   

"For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity. "

Rogers, Will on uncategorised   

"Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago. "

Rogers, Will on uncategorised