Will Rogers

Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), full name William Penn Adair Rogers was a US vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma), and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". He made 71 films out of which 50 were silent films and wrote over 4000 syndicated newspaper columns. He died in airplane crash in northern Alaska.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Everything is funny as long as it happens to somebody else.

- Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince in The Illiterate Digest

• I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

- The Illiterate Digest

• Rumour travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

- The Illiterate Digest

• The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

- The Illiterate Digest

• All I know is just what I read in the papers.

- saying used as a lead-in to his routines.

• Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

- Autobiography

• You can't say civilization don't advance ... in every war they kill you in a new way.

- Autobiography

• The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

- Autobiography

Joseph Stalin