I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

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Gardens are not made by singing Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade.

Gardens are not made by singing Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman...

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman...

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I always prefer to believe in the best of everybody - it saves so much...

I always prefer to believe in the best of everybody - it saves so much...

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that...

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that...

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago......

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago......

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Let us now praise famous men' - / Men of little showing - / For...

Let us now praise famous men' - / Men of little showing - / For...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That...

You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That...

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil

You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil

It's clever, but is it Art?

It's clever, but is it Art?

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without...

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without...

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.