Will Rogers Quotes

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

Don't squat with your spurs on.

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

what is most personal is most universal

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.

Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.

We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.

If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.

I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does.

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.

The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

There's nothing a man can do, that i can't do better and in heels

Lord, let me live until I die.

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

A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

Never miss a chance to shut up

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.

The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

To be almost saved is to be totally lost.

God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.

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

I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.