Will Rogers Quotes

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

Humor comes from self-confidence.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

I'm not very funny!

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

I try to be funny and not ignorant.

For me, humor is everything!

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

My instincts are not comedic.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

I'm just not very funny.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

I don't just try to be funny.

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

Gags die, humor doesn't.