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
debt nation principal worry
For every nation and every individual, the principal worry is debt.
gambling debt great-depression
Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.
home boys debt
We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.
debt prosperity holes
The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
government debt pay
A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
worry may debt
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
country birth-rate debt
If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?
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.