Quote

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

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
Give
Reserve
Home
Reserves
Giving
Ireland
Motion
English
Picture
Rule
Rights

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.
Will Rogers
Image
Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
Will Rogers
Image
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Will Rogers
Image
A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.
Will Rogers
Image
Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.
Will Rogers
Image
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
Will Rogers
Image
You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.
Will Rogers
Image
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
Will Rogers
Image
In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know
Will Rogers
Image
Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.
Will Rogers
Image
Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
Will Rogers
Image
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.
Will Rogers
Image
A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.
Will Rogers
Image
We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.
Will Rogers
Image
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
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
If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.
Will Rogers
Image
I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.
Will Rogers
Image
I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers
Image
Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.
Will Rogers