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
business teaching giving
People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
crooks taxation taxes-funny
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
tombstone party government
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'
children fall party
When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.
honesty business successful
Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.
too-much treasury congressman
That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
running country government
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
death war civilization
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
ignorance bounds knows
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
funny sarcastic hurt
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
funny thinking aggravation
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
inspiration political-will justice
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
funny laughter food
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
funny way lawyer
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.