Quote

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

Will Rogers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
Politician
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
William Rogers
Truth
Orators
Exaggerated
Deliberate
Falsehood
Wasn
Called
Lying
Half
Orator

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them.
Will Rogers
Image
There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.
Will Rogers
Image
A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.
Will Rogers
Image
The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
Will Rogers
Image
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
Will Rogers
Image
Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
Will Rogers
Image
People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.
Will Rogers
Image
The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.
Will Rogers
Image
Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.
Will Rogers
Image
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will Rogers
Image
I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, Put it in land, and you can always walk on it. We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.
Will Rogers
Image
Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.
Will Rogers
Image
There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.
Will Rogers
Image
I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.
Will Rogers
Image
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
Will Rogers
Image
A company is known by the people it keeps.
Will Rogers
Image
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
Will Rogers
Image
There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
Will Rogers
Image
Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.
Will Rogers
Image
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers