I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

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It's clever, but is it Art?

It's clever, but is it Art?

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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......

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

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

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...

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut...

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut...

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a...

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a...

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

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos

You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!...

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!...

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...

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...

All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought...

All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought...

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at...

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at...

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and...

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and...

Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures...

Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures...

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I...

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I...

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.