Will Rogers Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• 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

  College, Race, Years

• An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Laughter, Food

• Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

  Will Rogers

  Death, War, Civilization

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 23 Dec. 1929

• We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

  Will Rogers

  Car, History, World

  "The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything". Daily Telegram #1355 (syndicated column). "Will Roger's Daily Telegrams, The Hoover Years, 1929-1931". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

• Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

  Will Rogers

  History, Reputation, Mona Lisa

• A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.

  Will Rogers

  Fun, History, Guy

• There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

  Will Rogers

  Liars, Reading, Differences

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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

  Will Rogers

  History, Source, Misled

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.33, Rowman & Littlefield

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