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: Failure Quotes

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...

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...

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane...

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane...

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

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

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.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple...

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple...

Payday came and with it beer

Payday came and with it beer

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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...

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

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

It's clever, but is it Art?

It's clever, but is it Art?

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

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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...

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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...

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

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

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.