Daily Telegram #1597, Will Rogers Finds Larnin' Spoils One For Real Work (4 September 1931)
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Will Rogers Quotes
As quoted in Saturday Review (25 August 1962)
Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935)
Variant: People often ask me, 'Will, where do you get your jokes?' I just tell 'em, 'Well, I watch the government and report the facts, that is all I do, and I don't even find it necessary to exaggerate.
Variant: I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
“Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.”
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The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
As quoted in Dreams Come Due : Government and Economics as If Freedom Mattered (1986) by John Galt, p. 235
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“The United States never lost a war or won a conference.”
Remark after the Versailles Peace Conference, as quoted in Wit and Wisdom (1936) edited by Jack Lait
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“Letting the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back.”
The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers (2001)
“You've got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one.”
Good Gulf radio show (24 June 1934)
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Weekly Article #59, 1924-01-27
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Nationally syndicated column number 518, And Here’s How It All Happened (1932), as published in the Tulsa Daily World, 5 December 1932.<ref>
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“No party is as bad as its state and national leaders.”
"I Accept the Nomination", Life magazine, 31 May 1928 http://books.google.com/books?id=zuINAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+party+is+as+bad+as+its+state+and+national+leaders%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage <br class="br">As quoted in ...
“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”
As quoted in Wit (2003) by Des MacHale, p. 299
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“There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.”
Source: The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949), Ch. 6
“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”
As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 190
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Variant: The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Advice sent to President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt (2 December 1932)
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The Will Rogers Book (1972)
Daily Telegram number 2678, Mr. Rogers Takes Notice Of The Senatorial Storm (6 March 1935)
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“This would be a great world to dance in if we didn't have to pay the fiddler.”
Daily Telegram #1224, Rogers Offers His Version Of The Economic Situation (27 June 1930)
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Daily Telegram #1538, The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything (28 June 1931) <ref name=telegram3>
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Daily Telegram #1355, The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything (26 November 1930)
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“The only problem with Boy Scouts is, there aren't enough of them.”
As quoted in Giving young people a chance to grow (22 Nov 2011)
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Source: [Marks, Linda, Giving young people a chance to grow, http://www.perrytribune.com/community/article_19a33c04-8c22-5b7e-bd10-ba1a572bc6ac.html, Perry County Tribune, 22 November 2011, 31 January 2015]
Daily Telegram #1538, The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything (28 June 1931)
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“I am not so much concerned with the return on capital as I am with the return of capital.”
The Prudent Professor: Planning and Saving for a Worry-Free Retirement (2011) by Edwin M. Bridges, Brian D. Bridges;
Forbes Guide to the Markets: Becoming a Savvy Investor (2009) by Forbes, LLC, Marc M. Groz
The National Underwriter, Volume 45 (1941), p. 12: "As Eddie Cantor put it years ago, after getting burned in the stock market, the life insurance policyholder is more interested in the return of his money than in the return on it."
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Daily Telegram #1808, Mr. Rogers' Heart Goes Out To Our Envoy To St. James's (10 May 1932) in The New York Times, 11 May 1932 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A15FA3E5A13738DDDA80994DD405B828FF1D3 <br class="br">Daily telegrams
“This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.”
Daily Telegram #1611, Mr. Rogers Thinks Its Time That A Smart Man Came Along (21 September 1931)
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“We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.”
Letter to Al Smith regarding the Democratic party (19 January 1929)
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"Warning to Jokers: Lay off the Prince"
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
“advertising […] makes you spend money you haven't got for things you don't want.”
As the Connecticut Yankee Hank Morgan / Sir Boss in the 1931 film A Connecticut Yankee (after Mark Twain). Cf. Ivan G. Shreve Jr: Thrilling days of yesteryear blogspot.de/2009/09 http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.de/2009/09/grey-market-cinema-connecticut-yankee.html. Also quoted in Printers' Ink magazine, volume 156, issue 1 (1931), p. 3 books.google https://books.google.com/books?id=-oULAQAAIAAJ&q=arthur's and Advertising Outdoors Vol. 2, No. 8 (August 1931), p. 19 https://books.google.com/books?id=rZcXAQAAMAAJ&q=definitions, https://books.google.com/books?id=rZcXAQAAMAAJ&q=spend+money = http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Advertising_Outdoors_1000005193/373 <br class="br">As quoted in ...
As quoted in Defending Liars : In Defense of President Bush and the War on Terror in Iraq (2006) by Howard L. Salter, p. 40
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"One of his most famous and most quoted remarks. First printed in the Boston Globe, June 16, 1930, after he had attended Tremont Temple Baptist Church, where Dr. James W. Brougher was minister. He asked Will to say a few words after the sermon. The papers were quick to pick up the remark, and it stayed with him the rest of his life. He also said it on various other occasions" ~ Paula McSpadden Love <!-- (p. 167) -->
Variant: I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like.
John D. [Rockefeller] sure carried out my old saying, “I never met a man I didn’t like.” Nationally syndicated column number 219, Rogers Gets Six Shiny Dimes From Oil King (1927).
The earliest dated citation of such a remark thus far found in research for Wikiquote is the one from 1926 about Leon Trotsky from the Saturday Evening Post (6 November 1926).
The Will Rogers Book (1972)
“We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.”
Daily Telegram number 2768, Mr. Rogers Puts Us Down As A Nation of Fleas (19 June 1935)
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Inscribed on the Will Rogers Memorial Building in Claremore, Oklahoma.
Variants: We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 285
We are all here for a short spell; so get all the good laughs you can.
As quoted in Civilization's Quotations : Life's Ideal (2002) by Richard Alan Krieger, p. 69
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Daily Telegram #1019, Thoughts Of Will Rogers On The Late Slumps In Stocks (31 October 1929)
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“Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.”
Nationally syndicated column number 114, Monuments Are All Right But Even Heroes Must Eat (1925).
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Daily Telegram number 2159, Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End (5 July 1933) <ref name=telegram4>
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"A Skinny Dakota Kid Who Made Good"
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Daily Telegram #926, A General Digging Out Of Old War Contracts (15 July 1929) <ref name=telegram2>
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Daily Telegram #1948, Will Rogers Favors Closing the Campaign Right Now and Letting The Boys Go Fishing (1 November 1932)
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Daily Telegram #1230, Congress Session, Rogers Says, Is Like Baby Getting A Hammer (4 July 1930)
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As quoted in Ether and me; or "Just relax." (1973)
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Humorous letter to Republican US President Warren Harding, facetiously offering to replace the American ambassador to the Court of St. James in England.
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
“Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.”
Daily Telegram #1538, The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything (28 June 1931)
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"Breaking into the Writing Game"
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
“When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you’ve got to have been looking for it.”
As quoted in Sanity Is Where You Find It : An affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's (1955) edited by Donald Day.
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“An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 258
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Daily Telegram (4 December 1931), as quoted in Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams (1979), p. 104; also in Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (1995) edited by Bryan B. Sterling and Frances N. Sterling, p. 304
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On Leon Trotsky Saturday Evening Post (6 November 1926) - note that Rogers specifically spelled the word "dident"
Context: I bet you if I had met him and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I dident like. When you meet people, no matter what opinion you might have formed about them beforehand, why, after you meet them and see their angle and their personality, why, you can see a lot of good in all of them.
