One of the casualties of this month’s California wildfires
was the 31-room mansion that once belonged to Will Rogers (1879-1935). Listed
on the National Register of Historic Places, the mansion and the surrounding ranch
have been a state park since 1944. If you have no idea who Will Rogers was,
these quotes should give you a clue:
“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully
in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report
the facts.”
“I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried
about ever happened.”
“Last year we said, ‘Things can’t go on like this,’ and they
didn’t. They got worse”
“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.”
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