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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I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em.
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Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge
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Our foreign dealings are an open book -- generally, a checkbook.
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Playing the hero is the shortes career you can have
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I tell you, all politics is apple sauce.
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Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.
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Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by
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We'll show the world we are prosperous, even if we have to go broke to do it.
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The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.