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
writing
I lived to write, and wrote to live.
happiness ease hours
Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
heart feelings melody
Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before.
musical mountain bells
And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.
thinking paris mind
Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.
made crushed ill
The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
gay may madness
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.
thinking achievement done
Think nothing done while aught remains to do.
time temples half
By many a temple half as old as Time.
echoes youth birth
I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?
running art morning
I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!
twilight games play
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.
reading men fleas
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.
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.