Mostly Angels in the Sky

Russell Leroy Todd¹

Family

TMG ID:25101, (28 Dec 1924 - 22 Mar 1984)

Relationship:

6th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Andrew Bertram Todd¹ B: 4 Jun 1896, D: 20 Feb 1969

Mother*

Edith Ethel Sparks¹ B: 31 Dec 1894, D: 5 Jun 1977

Vital Statistics

Born: Russell Leroy Todd was born on Sunday, 28 Dec 1924, at Granton, Clark County, Wisconsin^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 22 Mar 1984 at Sherwood Twp., Clark County, Wisconsin^G, at age 59 years, 2 months and 23 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Russell Leroy Todd was the son of: Andrew Bertram Todd and Edith Ethel Sparks.¹

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1880	2 living children	¹

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1880

2 living children

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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1 Feb 2013

Louisa Agibail Todd¹

Family

TMG ID:25103, (6 May 1901 - )

Relationship:

5th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

John Wesley Todd¹ B: 1861, D: 1918

Mother*

Mildred Francis Mercer¹ B: 16 Apr 1875, D: 17 Dec 1902

Vital Statistics

Born: Louisa Agibail Todd was born on Monday, 6 May 1901, at Clark County, Wisconsin^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Louisa Agibail Todd was the daughter of: John Wesley Todd and Mildred Francis Mercer.¹

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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Bessie Elizabeth Todd¹

Family

TMG ID:25104, (8 Nov 1902 - 30 Mar 1964)

Relationship:

5th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

John Wesley Todd¹ B: 1861, D: 1918

Mother*

Mildred Francis Mercer¹ B: 16 Apr 1875, D: 17 Dec 1902

Vital Statistics

Born: Bessie Elizabeth Todd was born on Saturday, 8 Nov 1902, at Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin^G.¹
Died on Monday, 30 Mar 1964 at age 61 years, 4 months and 22 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Bessie Elizabeth Todd was the daughter of: John Wesley Todd and Mildred Francis Mercer.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Lariviere (née Todd).
Name-Married: on Monday, 22 Aug 1927, her married name became Mrs. Belangy (née Todd).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Bessie and Peter H. Lariviere were married.¹
Marriage	Monday, 22 Aug 1927, Bessie, age 24 years, 9 months and 14 days, and James Belangy were married at Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Bessie and Peter H. Lariviere were married.¹

Marriage

Monday, 22 Aug 1927, Bessie, age 24 years, 9 months and 14 days, and James Belangy were married at Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington^G.¹

Child of: Bessie Elizabeth Todd and James Belangy

James Peter Belangy¹ B: 12 May 1928, D: 8 Dec 1949

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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1 Feb 2013

Peter H. Lariviere¹

TMG ID:25105, (1896 - )

Vital Statistics

Born: Peter H. Lariviere was born in 1896.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Peter and Bessie Elizabeth Todd, daughter of: John Wesley Todd and Mildred Francis Mercer, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Peter and Bessie Elizabeth Todd, daughter of: John Wesley Todd and Mildred Francis Mercer, were married.¹

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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James Belangy¹

Family

TMG ID:25106

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Monday, 22 Aug 1927, James and Bessie Elizabeth Todd, age 24 years, 9 months and 14 days, daughter of: John Wesley Todd and Mildred Francis Mercer, were married at Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Monday, 22 Aug 1927, James and Bessie Elizabeth Todd, age 24 years, 9 months and 14 days, daughter of: John Wesley Todd and Mildred Francis Mercer, were married at Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington^G.¹

Child of: James Belangy and Bessie Elizabeth Todd

James Peter Belangy¹ B: 12 May 1928, D: 8 Dec 1949

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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1 Feb 2013

James Peter Belangy¹

Family

TMG ID:25107, (12 May 1928 - 8 Dec 1949)

Relationship:

6th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

James Belangy¹

Mother*

Bessie Elizabeth Todd¹ B: 8 Nov 1902, D: 30 Mar 1964

Vital Statistics

Born: James Peter Belangy was born on Saturday, 12 May 1928, at Washington^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 8 Dec 1949 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, at age 21 years, 6 months and 26 days. Details as recorded: Cause of Death: plane crash.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

James Peter Belangy was the son of: James Belangy and Bessie Elizabeth Todd.¹

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

Last Edited

27 Aug 2022

Asa Bertram Mercer¹

Family

TMG ID:25108, (20 Dec 1876 - 4 Apr 1956)

Relationship:

4th cousin 2 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Andrew Faulkner Mercer¹ B: 20 Jan 1850, D: 27 Jul 1935

Mother*

Abigail Morrison¹ B: 15 Mar 1858, D: 15 Aug 1888

Vital Statistics

Born: Asa Bertram Mercer was born on Wednesday, 20 Dec 1876, at Wood County, Wisconsin^G.¹
Died on Wednesday, 4 Apr 1956 at Sandpoint, Bonner County, Idaho^G, at age 79 years, 3 months and 15 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Asa Bertram Mercer was the son of: Andrew Faulkner Mercer and Abigail Morrison.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Tuesday, 30 Nov 1897, Asa, age 20 years, 11 months and 10 days, and Harriet Mae Florence, age 17 years, 7 months and 4 days were married at Wood County, Wisconsin^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Tuesday, 30 Nov 1897, Asa, age 20 years, 11 months and 10 days, and Harriet Mae Florence, age 17 years, 7 months and 4 days were married at Wood County, Wisconsin^G.¹

Children of: Asa Bertram Mercer and Harriet Mae Florence

Fern Elizabeth Mercer+¹ B: 30 Aug 1898, D: 24 Nov 1980
Esther Lucille Mercer¹ B: 27 Jan 1901, D: 7 Oct 1976
Cyril Sylvester Mercer¹ B: 16 Apr 1904, D: 9 Apr 1988
Ansel Faulkner Mercer¹ B: 15 Jan 1910, D: 11 Feb 1911
Asa Bertram Mercer Jr.¹ B: 14 Mar 1923, D: 6 May 1994

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1880	12 Jun 1880, Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin^G	Andrew Faulkner Mercer, Abigail Morrison, Mildred Francis Mercer and Bessie Caroline Mercer²

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1880

12 Jun 1880, Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin^G

Andrew Faulkner Mercer, Abigail Morrison, Mildred Francis Mercer and Bessie Caroline Mercer²

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.
[S98] 1 Jun 1880, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y9djv69w Tenth Census of the United States, 1880, Page 537A, film number 1255453, Wisconsin 1880 Federal Population Census.

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Harriet Mae Florence¹

Family

TMG ID:25109, (26 Apr 1880 - 5 Apr 1963)

Vital Statistics

Born: Harriet Mae Florence was born on Monday, 26 Apr 1880, at Wood County, Wisconsin^G.¹
Died on Friday, 5 Apr 1963 at Sandpoint, Bonner County, Idaho^G, at age 82 years, 11 months and 10 days.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Tuesday, 30 Nov 1897, her married name became Mrs. Mercer (née Florence).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Tuesday, 30 Nov 1897, Harriet, age 17 years, 7 months and 4 days, and Asa Bertram Mercer, age 20 years, 11 months and 10 days, son of: Andrew Faulkner Mercer and Abigail Morrison, were married at Wood County, Wisconsin^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Tuesday, 30 Nov 1897, Harriet, age 17 years, 7 months and 4 days, and Asa Bertram Mercer, age 20 years, 11 months and 10 days, son of: Andrew Faulkner Mercer and Abigail Morrison, were married at Wood County, Wisconsin^G.¹

Children of: Harriet Mae Florence and Asa Bertram Mercer

Fern Elizabeth Mercer+¹ B: 30 Aug 1898, D: 24 Nov 1980
Esther Lucille Mercer¹ B: 27 Jan 1901, D: 7 Oct 1976
Cyril Sylvester Mercer¹ B: 16 Apr 1904, D: 9 Apr 1988
Ansel Faulkner Mercer¹ B: 15 Jan 1910, D: 11 Feb 1911
Asa Bertram Mercer Jr.¹ B: 14 Mar 1923, D: 6 May 1994

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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1 Feb 2013

Fern Elizabeth Mercer¹

Family

TMG ID:25110, (30 Aug 1898 - 24 Nov 1980)

Relationship:

5th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Asa Bertram Mercer¹ B: 20 Dec 1876, D: 4 Apr 1956

Mother*

Harriet Mae Florence¹ B: 26 Apr 1880, D: 5 Apr 1963

Vital Statistics

Born: Fern Elizabeth Mercer was born on Tuesday, 30 Aug 1898, at Nasonville, Wood County, Wisconsin^G.¹
Died on Monday, 24 Nov 1980 at San Diego, San Diego County, California^G, at age 82 years, 2 months and 25 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Fern Elizabeth Mercer was the daughter of: Asa Bertram Mercer and Harriet Mae Florence.¹

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: her nickname was "Bessie"¹
Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Sigman (née Mercer).
Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Holmberg (née Mercer).
Name-Married: on Tuesday, 17 Oct 1916, her married name became Mrs. Porter (née Mercer).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Fern and John F. Holmberg were married.¹
Marriage	Fern and Coleman L. Sigman were married.¹
Marriage	Tuesday, 17 Oct 1916, Fern, age 18 years, 1 month and 17 days, and Lee W. Porter, age 24 years, 1 month and 11 days were married at Laclede, Bonner County, Idaho^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Fern and John F. Holmberg were married.¹

Marriage

Fern and Coleman L. Sigman were married.¹

Marriage

Tuesday, 17 Oct 1916, Fern, age 18 years, 1 month and 17 days, and Lee W. Porter, age 24 years, 1 month and 11 days were married at Laclede, Bonner County, Idaho^G.¹

Children of: Fern Elizabeth Mercer and Lee W. Porter

Marie Fern Porter+¹ B: 12 Sep 1920, D: 23 Mar 1993
Margaret Anne Porter¹ B: 16 Aug 1922, D: 13 Dec 1984

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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1 Feb 2013

Lee W. Porter¹

Family

TMG ID:25111, (6 Sep 1892 - 23 Mar 1953)

Vital Statistics

Born: Lee W. Porter was born on Tuesday, 6 Sep 1892.¹
Died on Monday, 23 Mar 1953 at Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington^G, at age 60 years, 6 months and 17 days.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Tuesday, 17 Oct 1916, Lee, age 24 years, 1 month and 11 days, and Fern Elizabeth Mercer, age 18 years, 1 month and 17 days, daughter of: Asa Bertram Mercer and Harriet Mae Florence, were married at Laclede, Bonner County, Idaho^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Tuesday, 17 Oct 1916, Lee, age 24 years, 1 month and 11 days, and Fern Elizabeth Mercer, age 18 years, 1 month and 17 days, daughter of: Asa Bertram Mercer and Harriet Mae Florence, were married at Laclede, Bonner County, Idaho^G.¹

Children of: Lee W. Porter and Fern Elizabeth Mercer

Marie Fern Porter+¹ B: 12 Sep 1920, D: 23 Mar 1993
Margaret Anne Porter¹ B: 16 Aug 1922, D: 13 Dec 1984

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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1 Feb 2013

Marie Fern Porter¹

Family

TMG ID:25112, (12 Sep 1920 - 23 Mar 1993)

Relationship:

6th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Lee W. Porter¹ B: 6 Sep 1892, D: 23 Mar 1953

Mother*

Fern Elizabeth Mercer¹ B: 30 Aug 1898, D: 24 Nov 1980

Vital Statistics

Born: Marie Fern Porter was born on Sunday, 12 Sep 1920, at Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon^G.¹
Died on Tuesday, 23 Mar 1993 at San Diego, San Diego County, California^G, at age 72 years, 6 months and 11 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Marie Fern Porter was the daughter of: Lee W. Porter and Fern Elizabeth Mercer.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Friday, 28 Jul 1939, her married name became Mrs. Wilkinson (née Porter).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Friday, 28 Jul 1939, Marie, age 18 years, 10 months and 16 days, and William Wilkinson Jr., age 20 years, 8 months and 17 days were married at Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Friday, 28 Jul 1939, Marie, age 18 years, 10 months and 16 days, and William Wilkinson Jr., age 20 years, 8 months and 17 days were married at Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona^G.¹

Child of: Marie Fern Porter and William Wilkinson Jr.

William Wilkinson III¹ B: 27 Nov 1943, D: 12 Feb 1985

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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1 Feb 2013

William Wilkinson Jr.¹

Family

TMG ID:25113, (11 Nov 1918 - 14 Aug 1992)

Vital Statistics

Born: William Wilkinson Jr. was born on Monday, 11 Nov 1918, at Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida^G.¹
Died on Friday, 14 Aug 1992 at San Diego, San Diego County, California^G, at age 73 years, 9 months and 3 days.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Friday, 28 Jul 1939, William, age 20 years, 8 months and 17 days, and Marie Fern Porter, age 18 years, 10 months and 16 days, daughter of: Lee W. Porter and Fern Elizabeth Mercer, were married at Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Friday, 28 Jul 1939, William, age 20 years, 8 months and 17 days, and Marie Fern Porter, age 18 years, 10 months and 16 days, daughter of: Lee W. Porter and Fern Elizabeth Mercer, were married at Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona^G.¹

Child of: William Wilkinson Jr. and Marie Fern Porter

William Wilkinson III¹ B: 27 Nov 1943, D: 12 Feb 1985

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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1 Feb 2013

William Wilkinson III¹

Family

TMG ID:25114, (27 Nov 1943 - 12 Feb 1985)

Relationship:

6th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

William Wilkinson Jr.¹ B: 11 Nov 1918, D: 14 Aug 1992

Mother*

Marie Fern Porter¹ B: 12 Sep 1920, D: 23 Mar 1993

Vital Statistics

Born: William Wilkinson III was born on Saturday, 27 Nov 1943, at National City, San Diego County, California^G.¹
Died on Tuesday, 12 Feb 1985 at Vallejo, Solano County, California^G, at age 41 years, 2 months and 16 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

William Wilkinson III was the son of: William Wilkinson Jr. and Marie Fern Porter.¹

Memorable Moments & Stories

Other: William Wilkinson III 1 living child from each marriage.¹

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

Last Edited

1 Feb 2013

Margaret Anne Porter¹

Family

TMG ID:25117, (16 Aug 1922 - 13 Dec 1984)

Relationship:

6th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Lee W. Porter¹ B: 6 Sep 1892, D: 23 Mar 1953

Mother*

Fern Elizabeth Mercer¹ B: 30 Aug 1898, D: 24 Nov 1980

Vital Statistics

Born: Margaret Anne Porter was born on Wednesday, 16 Aug 1922, at Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 13 Dec 1984 at San Diego, San Diego County, California^G, at age 62 years, 3 months and 27 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Margaret Anne Porter was the daughter of: Lee W. Porter and Fern Elizabeth Mercer.¹

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: her nickname was "Peggy"¹
Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Smith (née Porter).
Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Baer (née Porter).

Memorable Moments & Stories

Other: Margaret Anne Porter 2 living children from first marriage (Baer).¹

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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1 Feb 2013

John F. Holmberg¹

TMG ID:25120

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	John and Fern Elizabeth Mercer, daughter of: Asa Bertram Mercer and Harriet Mae Florence, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

John and Fern Elizabeth Mercer, daughter of: Asa Bertram Mercer and Harriet Mae Florence, were married.¹

Citations

[S306] RootsWeb.com, online https://tinyurl.com/y75ojekm, Carol Kellogg (e-mail address), updated as of 01 Nov 2001.

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1 Feb 2013

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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.
— Will Rogers
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.
— Will Rogers
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.
— Will Rogers
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.
— Will Rogers
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.
— Will Rogers
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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