Will Rogers
Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogerswas an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social commentator, and stage and motion picture actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 November 1879
CountryUnited States of America
costs govern governed ten
It costs ten times more to govern that it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.
anyone hear name please political proposing send
If you hear of anyone proposing my name for political office, please maim him and send me the bill.
debt nation principal worry
For every nation and every individual, the principal worry is debt.
business years pet
Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.
inspirational selfishness matter
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.
inspirational want ifs
Don't invite me if you don't want me.
inspirational opportunity men
Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.
inspirational perseverance hard-work
A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.
inspirational heart men
I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your "Gags", and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.
inspirational men proud
I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
education ignorance america
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
military war fall
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
years goes-on lasts
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
men mets
I never met a man that I didn't like.