Will Rogers
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films, and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and was one of the higher paid Hollywood film stars. He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in northern Alaska.
Quotes
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Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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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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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.
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If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.
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There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.