The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
SAMUEL ROGERS Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
SAMUEL ROGERS Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.
SAMUEL ROGERS Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
SAMUEL ROGERS And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all th...
SAMUEL ROGERS I lived to write, and wrote to live
SAMUEL ROGERS I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo...
SAMUEL ROGERS The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell, And fee...
SAMUEL ROGERS I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this exc...
SAMUEL ROGERS Long on the wave reflected lustres play.
SAMUEL ROGERS Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. St...
SAMUEL ROGERS It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone e...
SAMUEL ROGERS Think nothing done while aught remains to do.
SAMUEL ROGERS To know her was to love her
SAMUEL ROGERS When a new book is published, read an old one.
SAMUEL ROGERS It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someo...
SAMUEL ROGERS No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo...
ROGERS Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
WILL ROGERS Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
WILL ROGERS Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
WILL ROGERS The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
WILL ROGERS People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
WAYNE ROGERS There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
WAYNE ROGERS It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as a...
WAYNE ROGERS When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal ...
WAYNE ROGERS Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
WAYNE ROGERS Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate t...
WAYNE ROGERS Entrepreneurs bring to business... creativity.
WAYNE ROGERS I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's alway...
WAYNE ROGERS Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best arou...
WAYNE ROGERS The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscri...
WAYNE ROGERS You can't change the market; the market just is.
WAYNE ROGERS I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the...
WAYNE ROGERS I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
WAYNE ROGERS I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
WAYNE ROGERS I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that...
WAYNE ROGERS The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
WAYNE ROGERS You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition ...
WAYNE ROGERS Look first at management. That's the key to a company.
WAYNE ROGERS I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
WAYNE ROGERS I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those...
WAYNE ROGERS People will always want a free lunch.
WAYNE ROGERS The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody w...
WAYNE ROGERS When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and se...
WAYNE ROGERS If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.
WAYNE ROGERS What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
ROY ROGERS Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.
ROGERS HORNSBY It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.
ROGERS HORNSBY To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
ROGERS HORNSBY Now the advantage is all with the hitters.
ROGERS HORNSBY I've never been a yes man.
ROGERS HORNSBY I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my han...
ROGERS HORNSBY I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
ROGERS HORNSBY I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a tim...
GINGER ROGERS Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've s...
GINGER ROGERS When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
WILL ROGERS I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we c...
MIKE ROGERS I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get...
WILL ROGERS I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will g...
WILL ROGERS When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked abo...
WILL ROGERS Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in thi...
WILL ROGERS Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for ...
WILL ROGERS There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you ...
WILL ROGERS We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
WILL ROGERS Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
WILL ROGERS And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
WILL ROGERS I never met a man I didn't like.
WILL ROGERS When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
WILL ROGERS Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
JIM ROGERS While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. Th...
GINGER ROGERS Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the aren...
DESIREE ROGERS I'm a business person at heart.
DESIREE ROGERS We've become accustomed to let officials handle everything.
AL ROGERS Our young black men are falling victim to some anti-social behavior. Our kids are going to find acce...
AL ROGERS It was a blow to me. My job is to make sure the building is safe.
AL ROGERS In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beaut...
AL ROGERS I'm happy to be here. I enjoy my job so far and I'm glad to work in the town I grew up in.
ALAN ROGERS He is, in our view, reformed.
ALAN ROGERS They just need to do something to make it look nicer.
ALAN ROGERS It's a hard transition. You have to really want to be a part of a new culture.
ALAN ROGERS They may think that all military officers are George Patton, but what about Colin Powell? We're real...
ALAN ROGERS The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong...
WILL ROGERS The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse ...
WILL ROGERS Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
WILL ROGERS You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
WILL ROGERS It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
WILL ROGERS I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get s...
WILL ROGERS Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
WILL ROGERS Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes ...
WILL ROGERS Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
WILL ROGERS It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
WILL ROGERS Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
WILL ROGERS Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus.
ADRIAN ROGERS The city has come together for strength and to rally -- that is a good thing,
ADRIAN ROGERS Writing is one of the ambitions I have,
ADRIAN ROGERS The idea is to minister to pastors and share with them what God has taught me over 50 years of minis...
ADRIAN ROGERS I have known him for years,
ADRIAN ROGERS In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You bein...
WILL ROGERS Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start...
WILL ROGERS The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every ...
WILL ROGERS I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
WILL ROGERS I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
WILL ROGERS No party is as bad as its leaders.
WILL ROGERS Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
WILL ROGERS The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each part...
WILL ROGERS The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
WILL ROGERS This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried...
WILL ROGERS The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long ...
WILL ROGERS If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
WILL ROGERS Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.
WILL ROGERS It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was s...
WILL ROGERS With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
CARL ROGERS The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL ROGERS The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
CARL ROGERS When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
CARL ROGERS In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this p...
CARL ROGERS In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi...
CARL ROGERS All I know is what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ...
WILL ROGERS America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
WILL ROGERS Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
JAMES ROGERS The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best o...
WILL ROGERS Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
WILL ROGERS About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
WILL ROGERS America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
WILL ROGERS Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...
WILL ROGERS There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
WILL ROGERS There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
WILL ROGERS A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
WILL ROGERS The relationship which I have found helpful is characterized by a sort of transparency on my part, i...
CARL ROGERS If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of ...
CARL ROGERS The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.
CARL ROGERS The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change
CARL ROGERS In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this ...
CARL ROGERS I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion ...
CARL ROGERS The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
CARL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
CARL ROGERS Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...
FRED ROGERS If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
WILL ROGERS Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
WILL ROGERS When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than...
FRED ROGERS Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
WILL ROGERS Never miss a good chance to shut up.
WILL ROGERS Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundre...
JIM ROGERS Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be sw...
JIM ROGERS Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react a...
JIM ROGERS I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk ...
WILL ROGERS The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
WILL ROGERS You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
WILL ROGERS The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift,...
FRED ROGERS Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoymen...
WILL ROGERS A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
WILL ROGERS Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
WILL ROGERS All I know is just what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
WILL ROGERS There's no trick to being humorous when you have the whole government working for you.
WILL ROGERS Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
WILL ROGERS There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoir...
WILL ROGERS When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- w...
WILL ROGERS There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
WILL ROGERS Compared to them I
WILL ROGERS The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up...
WILL ROGERS We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR C...
WILL ROGERS My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
WILL ROGERS There are no small parts. Only small actors.
GINGER ROGERS Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
WILL ROGERS Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
WILL ROGERS I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
WILL ROGERS I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
ROGERS HORNSBY Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
KENNY ROGERS The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal...
WILL ROGERS An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.
WILL ROGERS You've got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em know when to walk away, know when to run.
KENNY ROGERS There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberat...
WILL ROGERS A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at...
WILL ROGERS The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
WILL ROGERS A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
ADRIAN ROGERS The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
WILL ROGERS Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
WILL ROGERS We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
WILL ROGERS There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can ne...
WILL ROGERS Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
WILL ROGERS Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
WILL ROGERS Live so that you wouldn
WILL ROGERS