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Post by acptulsa on Apr 10, 2016 18:22:13 GMT -8
What Will Rogers said about various stuff and what various people said about Will Rogers.
'Nobody wants to be called the Common People, especially the common people.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 13, 2016 9:48:16 GMT -8
'Discontent comes in proportion to knowledge.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 14, 2016 16:54:09 GMT -8
'Broadminded is another way of saying that a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 19, 2016 13:13:18 GMT -8
'A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Apr 27, 2016 7:03:33 GMT -8
"There was this kind of a little balcony up above the operating-room floor where people with a well developed sense of humor could sit and see other people cut up. It must be loads of fun. But there wasn't a soul there for my operation. I felt kind of embarrassed.
"I thought, 'Well, here I am maybe playing my last act, and to an empty house.'"--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 14:48:14 GMT -8
'You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 15:43:14 GMT -8
'History ain't what it is, it's what some writer wanted it to be.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 18:42:50 GMT -8
'So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 18:44:03 GMT -8
'This thing of being a hero, about the only thing to it is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 18:45:14 GMT -8
'Memoirs... means when you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 18:46:22 GMT -8
'There ain't no civilization where there ain't no satisfaction, and that's what's the trouble now, nobody is satisfied.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 18:46:56 GMT -8
'Discontent comes in proportion to knowledge.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 19:12:20 GMT -8
'Come on, now, Henry. You know that nobody with any sense ever took any of my gags seriously.'--Will Rogers
'They are taken seriously by nobody except half-wits. In other words, by approximately eighty-five percent of the voting population!'--H.L. Mencken
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 19:14:11 GMT -8
A fresh take on "flyover country":
'Oklahoma is the heart, it's the vital organ, of our national existence.'--Will Rogers
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Post by acptulsa on Jun 23, 2016 19:14:55 GMT -8
'You don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.'--Will Rogers
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