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. Take diplomacy out of a war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers

Divorces in Reno have increased over 105 per cent in the last year.’ Now, that’s prosperity, for you can’t be broke and get a divorce. That’s why the poor have to live with each other. There is nothing that denotes prosperity quicker than to hear that ‘so and so and his wife ain’t getting along.’

Will Rogers

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles’s religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

Will Rogers

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

Will Rogers

Don’t be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

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

Don’t raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don’t worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.

Will Rogers

Don’t make the first payment on anything. First payments is what made us think we were prosperous and the other nineteen is what showed us we were broke.

Will Rogers