Will Rogers Quotes

If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.

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

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.

Everybody needs a hero. Jesus is mine.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

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

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.

It's an awful risky thing to live

Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.

Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

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

Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.

What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody's perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.

Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

When you're happy, you don't count the years.

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

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

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

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.