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
sweet time memories
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
musical mountain bells
And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.
thinking paris mind
Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.
made crushed ill
The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
gay may madness
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.
time temples half
By many a temple half as old as Time.
thinking achievement done
Think nothing done while aught remains to do.
kindness gentle severe
Gentle to others, to himself severe.
law tears earth
That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
heart soul feelings
The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!
book new-books
When a new book is published, read an old one.
heart feelings melody
Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before.
happiness ease hours
Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
writing
I lived to write, and wrote to live.