Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (and Writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers...) [Hardcover]

Bryan B. Sterling (Author), Frances N. Sterling (Author)

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Publication Date: March 1, 1995

Over 2,000 quotes from 400 categories by America's best-loved humorist on such subjects as Americans, the world at large, government, city blight, taxes, Congress, and more. A must for every public speaker, researcher or Americana buff, this encyclopedic compendium features quotes in alphabetical order, and ranges from the philosophical to the very funny.

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Acting on the assumption that there's always room for one more?a slogan credited to sardine packers?the Sterlings have put together what appears to be their sixth book of selections from Will Rogers's sayings. It's a ships-shoes-sealing wax affair in which everything is arranged alphabetically by topic?bankers, Democrats, fashions, Indians, taxes, etc. A brief biographical note introduces the quotes and the man. There isn't much, really, to say about Rogers's oeuvre at this late date. He belongs to the ages. His name stands impregnably for dry wit, homespun humor, and the power to see the world as a magnificent farce, without glamour and without bitterness. With all due respect for the labor of love performed by the Sterlings, it is doubtful that many libraries need this book.?A.J. Anderson, GSLIS, Simmons Coll., Boston
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 331 pages
• Publisher: M.Evans & Company (March 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871317710
• ISBN-13: 978-0871317711
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,624,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers And Writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers... (Paperback)

My father , of blessed memory had a great affection for Will Rogers. He always used to quote the famous ," I never met a man I didn't like". I think it was Rogers plain commonsense humor, a certain honesty and telling the truth as he saw it, which impressed my father. And perhaps also the Rogers ability to deflate great pretensions and poke quiet fun at those in power. He tells us that if companies gave us much money to developing their products as to advertising them then they wouldn't have to advertise them. He points out one very large group of unemployed people is the ' advice- givers'. He wryly remarks about the difference between agriculture in the old days when they paid you to grow things, and agriculture now when they pay you not to.

He was a much beloved America, a man of the people who seemed a living embodiment of the American faith that the small man who came from a small place could really be the biggest man of all.