"Never Miss a Good Chance to Shut Up" and Other Will Rogers Quotes

Jardine Crombie

Description

Part Cherokee, part American, William Penn Adair Rogers was a humorist and actor. He starred in 50 silent and 21 talking films, and in 1934 he was voted the most popular actor in Hollywood. He was also a radio broadcaster, author, and newspaper columnist. Rogers was also a keen aviation advocate, to the extent that he was nicknamed the 'Patron Saint of Aviation'. He was friends with the American aviator Wiley Post (1898-1935). They both died when their Lockheed plane crashed shortly after take-off near Point Barrow, Alaska, on 15 August 1935. This collection consists of over 100 quotes that best portray the wit, wisdom and humour of Will Rogers.

Informations

• Publié par: Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited
• Date de parution: 06 mars 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781291771329
• Langue: English

Extrait

WILL ROGERS 1879-1935

William Penn Adair Rogers was an American humorist, entertainer, author, columnist and actor.

Born in Oologah, Oklahoma (then part of Indian territory), Rogers was part Cherokee, part American. He used his talent on the ranch to launch his career; performing lasso throwing acts on the vaudeville circuit. An affable man, he went on to star in fifty silent films, including Laughing Bill Hyde (1918), before making the transition to talking films, such as Doctor Bull (1933), Judge Priest (1934) and The Steamboat Round the Bend (1935). In 1934 he was voted the most popular actor in Hollywood.

Rogers was also a radio broadcaster and author, penning several books, including The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition (1919) and The Illiterate Digest (1924). He was a newspaper columnist, notably for the Saturday Evening Post, commenting on contemporary and political issues and American society, and became Honorary Mayor of Beverly Hills in 1925.

Rogers was also a keen aviation advocate, to the extent that he was nicknamed the ‘Patron Saint of Aviation’. He was friends with Wiley Post (1898-1935), the American aviator and first pilot to fly solo around the world.
 
Rogers and Post both died when their Lockheed plane crashed shortly after take-off near Point Barrow, Alaska, on 15 August 1935.
 
This collection consists of over 100 quotes that best portray the wit, wisdom and humour of Will Rogers.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.
 
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
 
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[I tell you folks] all politics is apple sauce.
 
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Always drink upstream from the herd.
 
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what’s going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?
 
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An economist’s guess is liable to be just as good as anybody else’s.
 
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An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.
 
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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
 
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.