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
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When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em. That's statesmanship of the highest order.
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.
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See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.
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Nothing makes a man or body of men as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it they laugh it off.
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That's one good thing about wars. It takes smarter men to figure out who loses 'em than it does to start 'em.
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He felt it was important for young men to be involved in community activities ... that taught them a lot of important things in business, teamwork and sportsmanship.
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Our young black men are falling victim to some anti-social behavior. Our kids are going to find acceptance somewhere. We have to ask what is going on in our community that these kids found themselves somewhere they didn't need to be.
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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
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If you send somebody to teach somebody, be sure that the system you are teaching is better than the system they are practicing.
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I never lack material for my humor column when Congress is in session.
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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. 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.
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God made man a little lower than the angels, and he has been getting a little lower ever since
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I never met a man I didn't like
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Comedians haven't improved. Nothing has improved but taxes.