Sergeant Jimmy Bagby:
[Offering Priest a drink] Have a snifter? Good corn!
Judge William 'Billy' Priest: You can smell the feet of the boy that ploughed it!
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
Judge William 'Billy' Priest: You can smell the feet of the boy that ploughed it!
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
Fleety Belle:
I feel like the Lord's just shamin' me for having hated you so.
Doctor John Pearly: Yeah - Don't have to -
[clears throat]
Doctor John Pearly: worry about - The Lord's a lot broad-minded than you think he is anyhow.
--Will Rogers (as Doctor John Pearly) in Steamboat Round the Bend
Doctor John Pearly: Yeah - Don't have to -
[clears throat]
Doctor John Pearly: worry about - The Lord's a lot broad-minded than you think he is anyhow.
--Will Rogers (as Doctor John Pearly) in Steamboat Round the Bend
New Moses:
I've got souls to save.
Doctor John Pearly: No, you got a life to save, and the Lord don't care which one of your jobs you do first.
--Will Rogers (as Doctor John Pearly) in Steamboat Round the Bend
Doctor John Pearly: No, you got a life to save, and the Lord don't care which one of your jobs you do first.
--Will Rogers (as Doctor John Pearly) in Steamboat Round the Bend
Judge William 'Billy' Priest:
[to Bagby] That breath of yours is like a hot mince pie.
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
Judge William 'Billy' Priest:
Ain't you gonna put your shoes on?
Jeff Poindexter: Well, I'm savin' 'em in case my feet wear out, and then I'll have 'em.
Judge William 'Billy' Priest: Hmmm.
[Chuckles]
Judge William 'Billy' Priest: As much sittin' around as you do, it won't be your feet that will wear out.
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
Jeff Poindexter: Well, I'm savin' 'em in case my feet wear out, and then I'll have 'em.
Judge William 'Billy' Priest: Hmmm.
[Chuckles]
Judge William 'Billy' Priest: As much sittin' around as you do, it won't be your feet that will wear out.
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
Judge William 'Billy' Priest:
That's sort of a novelty, Herman, - the barber gettin' cut up! Whoever cut him up couldn't have cut him up much if they used the barber's razor.
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
Judge William 'Billy' Priest:
Your honor, as I recollect the procedure, at the time bein' I'm an ordinary member of the bar in good standing.
Judge Floyd Fairleigh: Not ordinary, sir, but absolutely in good standing.
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
Judge Floyd Fairleigh: Not ordinary, sir, but absolutely in good standing.
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
Thomas Brown:
All the crooners are young fellas. The American public have never allowed a crooner to live to a ripe old age. And 120 million people can't be wrong.
--Will Rogers (as Thomas Brown) in Doubting Thomas
--Will Rogers (as Thomas Brown) in Doubting Thomas
Thomas Brown:
I feel like an old lion being thrown to the Christians.
--Will Rogers (as Thomas Brown) in Doubting Thomas
--Will Rogers (as Thomas Brown) in Doubting Thomas
[first lines]
Judge William 'Billy' Priest: Hear! Hear! Hear! Court's called to order!
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
Judge William 'Billy' Priest: Hear! Hear! Hear! Court's called to order!
--Will Rogers (as Judge William 'Billy' Priest) in Judge Priest
