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
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.
behalf cut develop gets inmates officer relationships stuff sudden wrong
Too many times, you read too many instances where relationships develop and all of a sudden an officer is going to do something that's wrong on behalf of the inmates such as being in stuff he should not be having. We just wanted to cut that off before it even gets to that.
majority-vote decision always-wrong
Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.
educating kids terribly wrong
That's outrageous. There is something terribly wrong in their methodology for educating kids.
cent chance knew operation per risk smiled wrong
That made things even harder. We knew there was a 25 per cent risk of something going wrong in surgery. At worst, she could die. When she smiled it made us feel even worse, but we knew she had to have the operation to have any real chance of living.
board capable edison good moving reason separation stress trying wrong
The board's reason for separation was not necessarily that there's something wrong with Edison. What the board was really trying to stress was that moving away from Edison was a good idea because we are capable of doing what they do.
government humorist trick
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
amendment anybody five learning pass people smartest works
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
though
Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.
Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
politics truth
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
organized
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
anyone retires
There comes Coolidge and does nothing and retires a hero, not only because he hadn't done anything, but because he had done it better than anyone