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"This would be a great world to dance in if we didnt have to pay the fiddler."
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Will Rogers"I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined, or hard to check, as a socially ambitious mother."
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films, and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, Roger
"This would be a great world to dance in if we didnt have to pay the fiddler."
"But its just as Mr. Brisbane and I have been constantly telling you, "Dont gamble"; take all your savings and buy some good stock, and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it dont go up, dont buy it."
"You cant say that civilization dont advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."
"Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is."
"I not only "dont choose to run" but I dont even want to leave a loophole in case I am drafted, so I wont "choose". I will say "wont run" no matter how bad the country will need a comedian by that time."
"Diplomacy is the same as saying "nice doggie" until you have a chance to pick up a rock."