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

- Will Rogers

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

- Will Rogers

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

- Will Rogers

A fool and his money are soon elected.

- Will Rogers

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

- Will Rogers

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

- Will Rogers

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

- Will Rogers

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

- Will Rogers

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

- Will Rogers

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

- Will Rogers

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

- Will Rogers

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

- Will Rogers

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

- Will Rogers

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

- Will Rogers

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

- Will Rogers

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

- Will Rogers

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

- Will Rogers

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

- Will Rogers

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

- Will Rogers

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

- Will Rogers