Will Rogers híres idézetei
Will Rogers: Idézetek angolul
“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.”
"Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes" <!-- p. 72 -->
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Kontextus: The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.
“You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.”
The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
Változat: You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Daily Telegram number 2615, Mr. Rogers Finds the Wars At Home and Afar Alike (23 December 1934) in The New York Times, 24 December 1934 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E2DB173CEE32A25757C2A9649D946594D6CF <br class="br">Daily telegrams
“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.”
As quoted in The Image : A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1963) by Daniel Joseph Boorstein
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Daily Telegram #1597, Will Rogers Finds Larnin' Spoils One For Real Work (4 September 1931)
Daily telegrams
As quoted in Saturday Review (25 August 1962)
Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935)
Változat: 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.
Változat: 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)
Other
Weekly Article #59, 1924-01-27
Weekly columns
Nationally syndicated column number 518, And Here’s How It All Happened (1932), as published in the Tulsa Daily World, 5 December 1932.<ref>
Weekly columns
“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.”
Forrás: 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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Változat: The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Advice sent to President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt (2 December 1932)
Other
radio broadcast (14 April 1935)
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The Will Rogers Book (1972)
Daily Telegram number 2678, Mr. Rogers Takes Notice Of The Senatorial Storm (6 March 1935)
Daily telegrams
“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)
Daily telegrams
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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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