“We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that's overfilled with everything we want.”

— Will Rogers, Daily Telegram #1355 (26 November 1930)

About Will Rogers

1879 – 1935

American humorist and entertainer, known for his newspaper columns and radio commentary.

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.”

“You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

“Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.”

“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”

“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!”