New York Times, 23. Dezember 1929
Original engl.: "You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."
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„Alles ist lustig, solange es jemand Anderem passiert.“
Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
Original engl.: "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else."
„Jeder ist ein Ignorant, nur bei unterschiedlichen Themen.“
New York Times, 31. August 1924
Original engl.: "You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
„Kommunismus ist wie Prohibition - eine gute Idee, aber es funktioniert nicht.“
Weekly Articles (1981), erstmals veröffentlicht 1927
Original engl.: "Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work."
„Ich mache keine Witze. Ich beobachte nur die Regierung und berichte Tatsachen.“
Saturday Review, 25. August 1962
Original engl.: "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
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“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers (2001)
“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”
"The World Tomorrow" After the Manner of Great Journalists
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
“We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poor house in an automobile.”
As quoted in How We Elect Our Presidents (1952), edited by Donald Day, p. 111
Variants: We'll hold the distinction of being the only Nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.
We hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that went to the poor-house in an automobile.
We hold the distinction of being the only nation that is goin' to the poorhouse in an automobile.
As quoted in ...
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Variante: Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
“The chances are telling the truth is what got him there”
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).
Weekly columns
Kontext: 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.
“I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce.”
The Illiterate Digest (1924), p. 30
“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).
Weekly columns
Kontext: 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.
Daily Telegram #1019, Thoughts Of Will Rogers On The Late Slumps In Stocks (31 October 1929)
Daily telegrams
Kontext: 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.
“See they conducted experiments on convicts”
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).
Weekly columns
Kontext: 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).
Weekly columns
Kontext: 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.
“The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers (2001)
Kontext: 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.
Quelle: The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949), Ch. 16
"Politics Getting Ready to Jell" <!-- p. 265 -->
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Quelle: Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935), Ch. 9<!-- chapter 9, pp. 156–57-->
Kontext: So when all the yielding and objections is over, the other Senator said, "I object to the remarks of a professional joker being put into the Congressional Record." Taking a dig at me, see? They didn't want any outside fellow contributing. Well, he had me wrong. Compared to them I'm an amateur, and the thing about my jokes is that they don't hurt anybody. You can say they're not funny or they're terrible or they're good or whatever it is, but they don't do no harm. But with Congress — every time they make a joke it's a law. And every time they make a law it's a joke.
The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers (2001)
Variante: There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.”
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
“Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.”
Nationally syndicated column number 42, Blames All Ills on Earthquake (1923). This became a remark Rogers often used in his public appearances.
Weekly columns
“I never met a man I didn’t like.”
Nationally syndicated column number 219, Rogers Gets Six Shiny Dimes From Oil King (1927). <ref name=columns2>
Weekly columns
Variante: I never met a man that I didn't like.
“Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.”
"Politics Getting Ready to Jell" <!-- p. 265 -->
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Kontext: Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
Variante: Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
“Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
Nationally syndicated column number 90, From Nuts To The Soup (31 August 1924); published in The New York Times http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50A12F83D551B7A93C3AA1783D85F408285F9 <br class="br">Weekly columns <br class="br">Variante: Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
