"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 ...












Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
More Will Rogers quotes
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
"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.
"Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
"It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
"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.
"The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
"We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
"We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.