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

Topics: Chicago Quotes, Cities Quotes

Payday came and with it beer

Payday came and with it beer

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

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

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...

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long...

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long...

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are...

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are...

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

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......

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the...

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the...

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by...

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by...

Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors...

Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors...

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

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

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...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't...

But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The...

But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The...

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...

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me...

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me...