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
children men childhood
Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.
littles blank gentle
Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.
summer fire clouds
Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.
shadow mountain evening
Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.
sweet memories flower
Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.
brain links stamps
Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies!
stars busy silent
But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full of life and circumstance.
treasure care lasts
When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.
short-love headstone knows
To know her was to love her.
life angel care
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
funny marriage morning
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
solitude
Then never less alone than when alone.
regret father heart
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.
heart speech deny
Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.