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
barometer cutting might starts surest war watch
If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.
money cutting order
When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.
cutting winning want
They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.
running cutting thinking
We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.
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It had to be state of the art, but not cutting edge or bleeding edge. It had to be something that would carry us for 20 to 25 years. We wanted it to be adaptive, so we wouldn't have to rip it out when new technologies like IPv6 come down the pike. We wanted it to support agency standards and conform to our architecture. But the big thing was to remove IT boundaries within the different organizations within the FDA.
cutting people matter
People are still people no matter how you cut it.
mean cutting tough-times
Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
matter wrong
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't but one thing wrong with every one of us -- and that's selfishness.
blame changed children joining
We changed with the times, so we can't blame the children for just joining the times without even having to change.
keeps memories office short voters
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office
lust women
The whole thing about the women is, they lust to be misunderstood
anybody economist given good guess happen liable man
An economist is a man that can tell you . . . what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.
funny happening
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else
appearing possible
Say as little as possible while appearing to be awake.