Mostly Angels in the Sky - Recent Updates

Quick Recap of Recent Additions and Changes

The most recent 12 weeks of changes to my database

25 Sep 2023: Dorey, Louisa Mary   B: 1881, D: 1973

Jones, Deborah J. B: 1953, D: 2010

Jones, Howard Hillis   B: 1935, D: 2019

Jones, Mary Bertha   B: 1933, D: 2018

Shepard, Ernest B: 1926, D: 2012
24 Sep 2023: Cunningham, Nona Pearl B: 1915, D: 2013

Hoffman, James D.   B: 1923, D: 2011

Jones, Granville Griffin   B: 1910, D: 1985

Jones, James Black   B: 1867

Jones, James Hillis B: 1957, D: 1982

Jones, Joshua   B: circa 1842, D: 1891

Long, Verna Norita   B: 1903, D: 1997

Mansperger, Emor Floyd B: 1898, D: 1930

Miller, Corbitt B: 1915, D: 1981

Roll, Margaret Ann   B: 1846, D: 1917

Taylor, Isabelle Virginia B: 1869, D: 1949
23 Sep 2023: Baker, Charles O. B: 1888, D: 1930

Baker, James Franklin   B: 1880, D: 1955

Baker, Laura E.   B: 1917

Baker, Louis B: 1872

Baker, Muzet F.   B: 1915

Baker, Sara Elizabeth B: 1874

Baker, Thomas B: 1837, D: 1925

Baker, Thomas A. B: 1877, D: 1960

Baker, William Alva B: 1875, D: 1926

Hoffman, Kenneth Dwain   B: 1901, D: 1979

Jones, Sallie   B: 1879

Marion, Martha B: circa 1837

McGath, Mary Ann B: 1846, D: 1932

Wolfe, Bessie Viva   B: 1896, D: 1963
22 Sep 2023: Burns, (?)

Henry, (?)

Jones, Grover B: 1885

Jones, Kitty   B: 1875, D: 1952

Jones, Lafayette   B: circa 1872

Jones, Percy Melville B: circa 1869

Jones, William H.   B: 1812, D: 1872

Jones, William P.   B: 1866
21 Sep 2023: Jones, Flora Jenny B: 1870, D: 1958

Jones, Howard Leander B: 1882, D: 1948
20 Sep 2023: Boggs, Myrtle

Deisler, Sarah

Hall, Lula

Hern, Carl Jennings   B: 1900

Hern, Daisy Mary   B: 1897, D: 1983

Hern, Doris L.   B: circa 1923

Hern, Faye Aleen   B: 1906

Hern, Gerty M.   B: 1888

Hern, Howard C.   B: 1891

Hern, James Alonzo   B: 1859, D: 1928

Hern, Laurel M.   B: circa 1925

Hern, Mildred A.   B: circa 1928

Hern, Morgan Willard   B: 1904, D: 1966

Hern, Moses L.   B: 1894

Hern, Nell Claire   B: 1883, D: 1920

Johnson, Carl W.   B: circa 1922

Johnson, Dean R.   B: circa 1927

Johnson, Gean F.   B: circa 1927

Johnson, Grover Cleveland   B: 1890, D: 1950

Johnson, Margie M.   B: circa 1924

Johnson, Smith G.

Johnson, Victor V.   B: circa 1926

Johnson, Willard A.   B: circa 1920

Jordan, Mahala

Kinkade, James

Kinkade, Kermit Kelvin B: 1904

Martin, Frank B: 1889

Martin, J.E.

Martin, Mary J. B: 1895

Martin, Thomas

Musgrave, Mary Ann

Smith, Daniel

Smith, Elma L.   B: 1896

Wallace, Anna

Young, Ida Mae   B: 1867, D: 1948

Young, Jeremiah
19 Sep 2023: Bowman, Ella Mae B: 1884, D: 1967

Camp, George Russell Jr. B: 1925, D: 1981

Dozer, Robert Kenneth B: 1929, D: 2017

Ellis, Curtis Franklin B: 1915, D: 1976

Eppley, Arthur E. B: 1902, D: 1983

Fogle, Thelma Irene B: 1919, D: 1977

Grover, Edith Mae B: 1930, D: 2000

Grover, Joseph Jefferson B: 1908, D: 1935

Hanger, Charmaine V. B: 1938, D: 1980

Harvey, Luzella B: 1905, D: 1951

Hern, Ida Ellen   B: 1936, D: 2021

Hern, Janet Sue   B: 1943, D: 1998

Hern, May A.   B: circa 1908

Hern, Roberta J.   B: 1939, D: 2019

Holmes, Edward Eugene B: 1940, D: 2003

Johnson, Elizabeth Ann B: 1856, D: 1910

Jones, Bertha Charlene B: 1936, D: 1999

Jones, Charles Cecil   B: 1905, D: 1992

Jones, Donnie M. B: 1932

Jones, Esther Mae   B: 1926, D: 1979

Jones, Granville Loren B: 1932, D: 1998

Jones, Nellie Louise B: 1934, D: 1999

Jones, Norma Jean B: 1939, D: 1975

Kimble, Kenneth C. B: 1940, D: 2003

Labaki, Emil B: 1925, D: 2001

LaGrange, Donald Buell B: 1931, D: 1968

Lovejoy, Anna Ellen   B: 1912, D: 2000

Lovejoy, Ritchie E.   B: circa 1914

Lovejoy, Robert Lee B: 1863, D: 1944

Mansperger, Evelyn G. B: 1927, D: 2004

Mansperger, George Wilbur B: 1867, D: 1947

Mansperger, Lavera Marie B: 1923, D: 2007

Okey, Gene Vance B: 1919, D: 1933

Orwig, Charles E. B: 1927, D: 2007

Shepard, Moses B: 1902, D: 1991

St. Clair, Jennie Mae   B: circa 1907

Stephenson, Melvin Lee B: 1931, D: 1995

Wile, Henrietta Betty B: 1945, D: 2014
18 Sep 2023: (?), Sarah   B: 1862

Armbrust, (?)

Bell, Bridget   B: circa 1888, D: before 1940

Dobbins, Doris Eileen B: 1919, D: 1999

Griffin, Bertha F.   B: 1884, D: 1927

Griffin, John Thomas B: 1852, D: 1923

Jones, Ada   B: 1882

Jones, Audrey Mae   B: circa 1929, D: before 2009

Jones, Bernard Oliver   B: 1923, D: 1998

Jones, Bernice   B: circa 1914

Jones, Clarence   B: 1895

Jones, Dale W.   B: circa 1919, D: after 2009

Jones, Francis J.   B: circa 1925, D: before 2009

Jones, Frank   B: 1893

Jones, Gerald C.   B: circa 1907, D: before 2009

Jones, Glenn H.   B: circa 1926, D: before 2009

Jones, Harmon L.   B: circa 1909, D: before 2009

Jones, Isaac   B: 1861

Jones, Isaac J.   B: circa 1887

Jones, James W.   B: 1884

Jones, Joseph H.   B: 1886

Jones, Kenneth   B: circa 1912, D: before 2009

Jones, Loren Harley   B: 1916, D: 1983

Jones, Mary E.   B: circa 1928, D: before 2009

Jones, Perry Oliver   B: 1876, D: 1926

Jones, Robert G.   B: 1898

Jones, Sarah E.   B: 1899

Jones, Susie Jane B: 1940, D: 1940

Jones, Vaughn E.   B: circa 1921, D: after 2009

Jones, William   B: circa 1918, D: before 2009

Lagrange, Faye P. B: 1923, D: 2012

Moore, James Dewitt B: 1891, D: 1957

Spangler, Rebecca Samantha   B: 1853, D: 1942

Stone, (?)
17 Sep 2023: Jones, Joseph Lester   B: 1922, D: 2009

Kovaleski, (?)

Lucas, Charlotte J.   B: circa 1929, D: before 2016

Lucas, Emma Sue   B: 1933, D: 2016

Lucas, Lillian Faye   B: 1926, D: 2016
16 Sep 2023: Anderson, Stella   B: circa 1915

Bell, Martha Etta B: 1865, D: 1917

Dingey, Clyde O. B: 1893, D: 1990

Dingey, Daisy Ann B: 1898, D: 1980

Dingey, George Lewis B: 1891, D: 1970

Dingey, Gladys Marie B: 1902, D: 2000

Dingey, William Edward B: 1865, D: 1921

Ferguson, Frederick Hall B: 1927, D: 1977

Frazier, John Franklin B: 1891, D: 1984

Johnston, Roger Leroy B: 1928, D: 2004

Jones, Eurith Lucinda   B: 1869

Jones, Francis J.   B: 1862, D: 1940

Jones, Lenna Marie   B: 1903, D: 1941

Jones, Mary E.   B: 1879

Leasure, James Henry B: 1865, D: 1939

Lucas, George McClelland   B: 1862, D: 1943

Lucas, Kathleen Etta   B: 1924, D: 2015

Lucas, Robert E.   B: 1923, D: 2003

Lucas, Rolley   B: 1904, D: 1970

Mitchell, William Otis B: 1896, D: 1968

Roberts, Mary Jane B: 1897, D: 1985

Wilkins, (?) B: 1947, D: 1947

Wilkins, Larry Lee B: 1942, D: 1942

Wilkins, Vernon E. B: 1918, D: 1996

Wion, Berkley Herbert B: 1855, D: 1941

Wion, Beulah Gladys B: 1902, D: 1986

Wion, Estella Luella B: 1893, D: 1975

Wion, Perley Daniels B: 1897, D: 1982
15 Sep 2023: (?), Adaline   B: circa 1867, D: before 1920

Jones, Kora Louisa   B: 1874, D: 1959

Wortman, George W.   B: circa 1866, D: before 1940
13 Sep 2023: (?), Elisabeth

Alexander, Catherine E.   B: 1840, D: 1937

Alexander, Robert

Alexander, Sydney Abby   B: 1843, D: 1919

Butler, Demia B: 1874, D: 1956

Gorrell, Anna Scovel B: 1901

Gorrell, Demia Butler Jr. B: 1906

Gorrell, Mamie B: 1870, D: 1878

Gorrell, Scovel Butler B: 1903

Gorrell, Warren   B: circa 1874, D: 1943

Gorrell, William F.   B: 1838, D: 1909

Jones, George Washington   B: 1837, D: 1921
12 Sep 2023: Alexander, Thomas B: 1796

Miller, Esther B: 1793, D: 1863
10 Sep 2023: Alexander, Samuel Calvin B: 1832, D: 1860

Ayres, Lucinda   B: 1821, D: 1909

Jones, Absolom   B: 1799, D: 1887

Poland, Catherine   B: 1825, D: 1860

Poland, Phoebe M.   B: 1833, D: 1911

Polland, Enoch   B: circa 1799

Zoll, Jacob B: 1810, D: 1894
6 Sep 2023: Applebaum, Harry Ray   B: 1889, D: 1965

Applebaum, Isaac B: 1854, D: 1928

Atckison, Charlotte Patricia   B: 1918, D: 1990

Bullard, Carolyn F.   B: 1919, D: 2008

Bullard, Lamont Chubb B: 1914, D: 1917

Bullard, Marguerite Esther   B: 1897, D: 1930

Bullard, Philip Sherman   B: 1917, D: 1996

Bullard, William Elihu   B: 1870, D: 1941

Bullard, William Elihu Jr.   B: 1913, D: 1989

Chubb, Gertrude   B: 1879, D: 1956

Cleave, Hazel Jean   B: 1920, D: 2004

Goss, George Allen

Hill, (?)

Hill, Lucy M.   B: circa 1871

Hill, Margaret   B: 1872, D: 1910

Jacobs, Rachel B: 1860, D: 1930

McArdle, John Joseph B: 1895, D: 1941

Patten, Wilma D. B: 1896

Walsh, (?) D: before 1910
5 Sep 2023: Atckinson, Richard Germain   B: 1922, D: 1998

Atckinson, Winifred Lorraine   B: 1920

Atckison, Adoree G.   B: 1926, D: 2006

Atckison, Edward James   B: 1889, D: 1978

Atckison, Robert Edward   B: 1917, D: 2008

Baker, Clarence D. B: circa 1876

Baker, J.S.

Baldwin, Louisa   B: 1827, D: 1872

Chubb, Archibald Lamont   B: 1830, D: 1887

Chubb, Archy L. B: 1883

Chubb, Carrie M.   B: 1881

Chubb, Charles Frisbie   B: 1877, D: 1960

Chubb, Grace LaMont   B: 1864, D: 1921

George, Archibald Love B: 1864, D: 1939

Lamont, Gaius Emmet   B: 1821, D: 1900

Mathis, Mary Grace   B: 1893, D: 1973

McMechan, Mary Ann   B: 1843, D: 1930

Potter, Alice
3 Sep 2023: Boies, David   B: 1843, D: 1851

Boies, Eli   B: circa 1800, D: 1863

Boies, Eugene   B: 1846, D: 1928

Boies, Helen   B: 1848, D: 1850

Boies, Helen Maud   B: 1852

Boies, Mary E.   B: 1840, D: 1850

Bullard, George Oscar B: 1828, D: 1907

Falk, (?)

Kellogg, Lydia Maria   B: 1815

Sherman, Harriet B: 1833, D: 1896
2 Sep 2023: Boies, Edward Baldwin B: 1877, D: 1947

Chappell, Helen B: 1889, D: 1977

Chubb, Evangeline A. B: 1853, D: 1935

Harter, William Babcock B: 1851, D: 1893
1 Sep 2023: Albert, Mary Clare B: 1886, D: 1975

Capps, Martha B: 1923, D: 1990

Chubb, Charles Frisbie Jr. B: 1920, D: 2006

Chubb, Nicholas Carroll B: 1922, D: 2008

Chubb, Scott Robinson B: 1953, D: 2011

Chubb, Talbot Albert B: 1923, D: 2011

Chubb, Talbot Spence B: 1954, D: 2023

Garner, Helen Delores B: 1933, D: 2021

McMechan, Caroline O.   B: circa 1846

McMechan, Charles B: circa 1853

McMechan, Sarah   B: circa 1840

McMechan, William   B: 1805, D: 1886

McMechan, William   B: circa 1848

Mosley, Lucy   B: 1811, D: 1872

Orila, (?)

Sedlak, Mary T. B: 1927, D: 2013

Tedder, Robert Henry B: 1928, D: 2019
31 Aug 2023: Albert, Thomas Jones B: 1847, D: 1919

Baldwin, William B: 1796, D: 1884

Bennett, Roxy B: circa 1799

Brown, Betty Lou B: 1923, D: 2020

Brown, Darlington A.

Chubb, Ellen Winnowgene B: 1868, D: 1874

Chubb, Eugene B: circa 1866, D: 1870

Chubb, Genie B: 1870

Chubb, George Lamont B: 1859, D: 1881

George, John Love B: 1832, D: 1899

Lamont, Robert B: 1847

MacGill, Olivia Patricia B: 1855, D: 1930

McLann, Janette B: 1827, D: 1899

Shaw, Elizabeth B: 1835, D: 1918

Wirtz, Verna L.
29 Aug 2023: Huntington, George Volney   D: 1958

Huntington, Mary Charlotte   B: 1885, D: 1964

Rowland, Joseph Ephriam B: 1875, D: 1947

Snelson, Julia Hannah   B: 1858, D: 1935

Snelson, Thomas William   B: 1813, D: 1867

Snelson, William C.   B: 1830, D: 1853

Snelson, William E.   B: 1854, D: 1905

Stewart, Charles William   B: 1878, D: 1965

Williamson, Mary Ann   B: 1819, D: 1891
25 Aug 2023: Farnham, Thomas Michael B: 1956, D: 2021

Farnham, William P. B: 1914, D: 1976

Kiehn, Helen C. B: 1923, D: 1998
17 Aug 2023: Abrour, Marie Evelyn   B: 1900, D: 1984

Bowen, Doris Irene   B: 1908, D: 1974

Burdick, Myron Frederick   B: 1916
11 Aug 2023: Chubb, Samuel B: 1721
9 Aug 2023: Chubb, Glode Dugar B: 1796, D: 1888
5 Aug 2023: Chubb, Bede

Frisbie, William B: 1736/37, D: 1813
2 Aug 2023: Chubb, Mary B: 1750, D: 1754

Fisher, Prudence B: 1726/27
31 Jul 2023: Lewis, Elsie Dora   B: 1925

Pattison, Pamelia   B: 1808, D: 1884

Wagner, John Phillip   B: 1919, D: 2009
29 Jul 2023: Alkire, Cora Belle   B: 1877, D: 1950

Alkire, Joseph Elijah   B: 1875, D: 1931

Alkire, William Jackson   B: 1851, D: 1916

Boyd, Martha Jane   B: 1853, D: 1921

Glass, Mary Ellen B: 1858, D: 1926

Hanna, Ruby Marie B: 1905, D: 1997

Hanna, William Anson B: 1870, D: 1929

Hickman, Leona   B: 1907, D: 1978

Hill, Curtis Alonzo B: 1850, D: 1898

Hill, Lulu Alice   B: 1878, D: 1922

Van Camp, Arthur William   B: 1902, D: 1960

Van Camp, Charles Orlando   B: 1875, D: 1967

Van Camp, Harry Sanders   B: 1905, D: 1968

Van Camp, Roscoe O.   B: 1899, D: 1942

White, Lettie Agnes B: 1877, D: 1969
28 Jul 2023: Hillard, Kenneth Lee   B: 1953, D: 1999

Potter, Zannette Velma B: 1919, D: 2011

Santos, Frederick Russell B: 1955, D: 2010

Santos, Joseph Edward B: 1953, D: 2001

Santos, Pio   B: 1911, D: 1995

Wagner, Gloria Jean   B: 1958, D: 2009
27 Jul 2023: Coburn, John Harvey   B: 1897, D: 1991

Conn, Dorothy Irene   B: 1913, D: 1993

Henry, Marilou Valerie   B: 1932, D: 1980

Hillard, Carol Lynn B: 1950, D: 2010

Hillard, Donald Rae   B: 1920, D: 2021

Kastner, Elma Carol B: 1920, D: 2011

Koski, Bertha Eleanore   B: 1933

Lewis, Donald Grant B: 1917, D: 1970

Noble, Eva Pearl   B: 1899, D: 1955

Wagner, Donald Ray   B: 1934, D: 2016

Wagner, Ernest Howard   B: 1908, D: 1994
24 Jul 2023: Joyce, Barbara Belle B: 1934, D: 2006

Weiss, Richard Calvin D: 2009
23 Jul 2023: Bunch, Edward Thomas   B: 1900

DeShazer, Ralph A.   B: 1897, D: 1960

Schmidt, Chloe Marie   B: 1891, D: 1965

Wagner, Viola Bell B: 1926

Wagner, Vivian Angeline   B: 1908, D: 1992
18 Jul 2023: Coad, Edward James   B: 1861, D: 1937

Coad, Ellen Cecelia   B: 1866, D: 1930

Coad, James Edward   B: 1836, D: 1897

Code, Michael Martin   B: 1864, D: 1928

Cunningham, Augustus Everett   B: 1859, D: 1939

Cunningham, Stanley James   B: 1900, D: 1981

Larkin, Helen   B: 1907, D: 1974

Larkin, John B: circa 1882

Moss, Cora Alice B: 1885, D: 1954

Whalen, Anna Amanda   B: 1837, D: 1910
12 Jul 2023: Brinkman, Bethel Velma   B: 1927, D: 2004

Brinkman, Richard James   B: 1922, D: 2007

Budd, Steven Eugene

Cook, James Edgar   B: 1926, D: 2005

Cook, Vivien Earl   B: 1908, D: 1997

Hildebrand, Michael

Nesheim, John Stanley
11 Jul 2023: Cook, Nettie Rose B: 1932, D: 2004

Hanberg, Tim Roy B: 1954, D: 2023

Mercer, Elva May B: 1907, D: 2013
10 Jul 2023: Brinkman, Dorothy Marie   B: 1915, D: 1998

Brinkman, Ronald Earl   B: 1892, D: 1958

Richardson, Charlotte Jeanette   B: 1920, D: 1986

Wagner, Elmer Stacy Jr.   B: 1928, D: 2006
9 Jul 2023: Brinkman, Kenneth Allan B: 1913, D: 1992

Smith, Bernadene Ethelyn B: 1912, D: 2010
7 Jul 2023: Brinkman, David Allan   B: 1944, D: 2010

Brinkman, Donald William   B: 1911, D: 1981

Brinkman, Robert Philip   B: 1920, D: 1989

Brinkman, Ruth Eleanor   B: 1917, D: 1962

Brinkman, Theodore Earl   B: 1931, D: 1972

Burdett, Virginia Harriett   B: 1911, D: 1984

Christensen, Mervin Nelson   B: 1915, D: 1996

Schlünsen, Marie K.   B: circa 1874

Schlünsen, Minnie   B: circa 1870

Young, Julia Ann   B: 1893, D: 1976

All additions, modifications, suggestions and comments are welcome.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
— Will Rogers
A fool and his money are soon elected.
— Will Rogers
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
— Will Rogers
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
— Will Rogers
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
— Will Rogers
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
— Will Rogers
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
— Will Rogers
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
— Will Rogers
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
— Will Rogers
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
— Will Rogers
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
— Will Rogers
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
— Will Rogers
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
— Will Rogers
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
— Will Rogers
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
— Will Rogers
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
— Will Rogers
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
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Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
— Will Rogers
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
— Will Rogers
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
— Will Rogers
Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
— Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
— Will Rogers
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
— Will Rogers
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
— Will Rogers
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers
Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
— Will Rogers
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
— Will Rogers
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
— Will Rogers
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
— Will Rogers
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
— Will Rogers
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
— Will Rogers
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
— Will Rogers
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
— Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
— Will Rogers
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
— Will Rogers
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
— Will Rogers
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
— Will Rogers
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
— Will Rogers
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
— Will Rogers
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
— Will Rogers
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
— Will Rogers
If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
— Will Rogers
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
— Will Rogers
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
— Will Rogers
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
— Will Rogers
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
— Will Rogers
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
— Will Rogers
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
— Will Rogers
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
— Will Rogers
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
— Will Rogers
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
— Will Rogers
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
— Will Rogers
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
— Will Rogers
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
— Will Rogers
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
— Will Rogers
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
— Will Rogers
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
— Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
— Will Rogers
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
— Will Rogers
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
— Will Rogers
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
— Will Rogers
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
— Will Rogers
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
— Will Rogers
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
— Will Rogers
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
— Will Rogers
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
— Will Rogers
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
— Will Rogers
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
— Will Rogers
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
— Will Rogers
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
— Will Rogers
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
— Will Rogers
Politics is applesauce.
— Will Rogers
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
— Will Rogers
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
— Will Rogers
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
— Will Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
— Will Rogers
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
— Will Rogers
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
— Will Rogers
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
— Will Rogers
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
— Will Rogers
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
— Will Rogers
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
— Will Rogers
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
— Will Rogers
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
— Will Rogers
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
— Will Rogers
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
— Will Rogers
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
— Will Rogers
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
— Will Rogers
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
— Will Rogers
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
— Will Rogers
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
— Will Rogers
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
— Will Rogers
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
— Will Rogers
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.
— Will Rogers
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
— Will Rogers
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
— Will Rogers
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
— Will Rogers
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
— Will Rogers
Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
— Will Rogers
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
— Will Rogers
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
— Will Rogers
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
— Will Rogers
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
— Will Rogers
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
— Will Rogers
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
— Will Rogers
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
— Will Rogers
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
— Will Rogers
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
— Will Rogers
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
— Will Rogers
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
— Will Rogers
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
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
— Will Rogers
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
— Will Rogers
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
— Will Rogers
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
— Will Rogers
Every person you will pass on the street today is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
— Sam Harris
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you 'no' who doesn't have the power to say 'yes.'
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Work is always an antidote to depression.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do …
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is exhilarating.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
— Eleanor Roosevelt
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The giving of love is an education in itself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All of life is a constant education.
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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