„Alla gente le chiacchiere non piacciono soltanto quando si parla di loro.“
— Will Rogers
citato in Herbert Victor Prochnow, The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958), p. 190
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Will Rogers
Data di nascita: 4. Novembre 1879
Data di morte: 15. Agosto 1935
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Will Rogers, nato William Penn Adair Rogers , è stato un attore, comico e giornalista statunitense di origini cherokee.
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„Non è difficile essere umorista quando tutto il governo lavora per voi.“
— Will Rogers
Citato in Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time, 1979, p. 524
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„Tutti sono ignoranti, solo su argomenti diversi.“
— Will Rogers
citato in [http://select. nytimes. com/gst/abstract. html? res=F50A12F83D551B7A93C3AA1783D85F408285F9 From Soup to Nuts The New York Times], 31 agosto 1924
„Una riunione è solo un modo di ammettere che vorresti far partecipare altri ai tuoi guai.“
— Will Rogers
citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, febbraio 1976
„Non si può dire che la civilizzazione non avanzi... infatti in ogni guerra ti uccidono in maniera diversa.“
— Will Rogers
citato in The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949), cap. 14
„Diventare un eroe è come vincere la professione più corta sulla terra.“
— Will Rogers
citato in The New York Times, 15 febbraio 1925
„L'America non ha mai perso una guerra e non ha mai vinto una conferenza.“
— Will Rogers
citato in Henry Kissinger, Questi anni alla Casa Bianca, Bergamo, Edizioni Euroclub, 1980, pp. 59-60
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„I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce.“
— Will Rogers
Context: I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce. <!-- p. 30
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„The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.“
— Will Rogers
Context: The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity. <!-- p. 228
„Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.“
— Will Rogers
Context: See they conducted experiments on convicts... I don't know on what grounds they reason a man in jail is a bigger liar than one out of jail... The chances are telling the truth is what got him there... It would be a big aid to humanity, but it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it... It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics … Even the ministers are denouncing it now … Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.
Nationally syndicated column number 31, A Few Shots of Scopolamin (15 July 1923), after meeting Robert E. House, who had proposed the use of scopolamine as a truth serum, in The Use of Scopolamine in Criminology (1922).
„The chances are telling the truth is what got him there“
— Will Rogers
Context: See they conducted experiments on convicts... I don't know on what grounds they reason a man in jail is a bigger liar than one out of jail... The chances are telling the truth is what got him there... It would be a big aid to humanity, but it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it... It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics … Even the ministers are denouncing it now … Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.
Nationally syndicated column number 31, A Few Shots of Scopolamin (15 July 1923), after meeting Robert E. House, who had proposed the use of scopolamine as a truth serum, in The Use of Scopolamine in Criminology (1922).
„I never yet met a man that I dident like“
— Will Rogers
Context: I bet you if I had met him 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 dident like. When you meet people, no matter what opinion you might have formed about them beforehand, why, after you meet them and see their angle and their personality, why, you can see a lot of good in all of them.
On Leon Trotsky Saturday Evening Post (6 November 1926) - note that Rogers specifically spelled the word "dident"
