"I was born because it was a..." - Quote by Will Rogers

“The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.”

“The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.”

“It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.”

“Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.”

“She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)”

“Life is in ourselves and not in the external.”

“Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.”

“I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me." "What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.”

“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”