Frases de Will Rogers
Will Rogers
Fecha de nacimiento: 4. Noviembre 1879
Fecha de muerte: 15. Agosto 1935
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers fue un cowboy, humorista, comentarista y actor estadounidense.
Conocido como el hijo favorito de Oklahoma,[1] Rogers nació en el seno de una importante familia de Territorio Indio. Dio la vuelta al mundo tres veces, rodó 71 películas ,[2] escribió más de 4,000 columnas periodísticas,[3] y se convirtió en una celebridad mundial.
A mediados de la década de 1930 Rogers era adorado por los estadounidenses, y fue la estrella mejor pagada de Hollywood.
Frases Will Rogers
„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 rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.“
— Will Rogers
Context: There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
„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
„See they conducted experiments on convicts“
— 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).
„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“
— 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"
„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).
„We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.“
— Will Rogers
Context: We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. <!-- p. 318
"The World Tomorrow" After the Manner of Great Journalists
„When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do — well, that’s Memoirs.“
— Will Rogers
Context: When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do — well, that’s Memoirs. <!-- Ch. 16
„I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce.“
— Will Rogers
Context: I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce. <!-- p. 30
„Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.“
— Will Rogers
Context: Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
Daily Telegram #1019, Thoughts Of Will Rogers On The Late Slumps In Stocks (31 October 1929)
