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date: 14 January 2025

Will Rogers 1879–1935
American actor and humorist 

  1. There is only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education.
    Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
  2. Income Tax has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf.
    The Illiterate Digest (1924) ‘Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes’
  3. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
    The Illiterate Digest (1924) ‘Warning to Jokers: lay off the Prince’
  4. Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
    in New York Times 30 September 1923
  5. You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
    in New York Times 31 August 1924
  6. Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
    newspaper article, 15 February 1925
  7. I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.
    in Saturday Evening Post 6 November 1926
  8. Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
    in 1927; Weekly Articles (1981)
  9. You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
    in New York Times 23 December 1929
  10. Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
    letter in New York Times 29 April 1930