Let us now praise famous men' - / Men of little showing - / For their work continueth, / And their work continueth, / Broad and deep continueth, / Greater than their knowing!

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Topics: Famous Quotes

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...

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

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......

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages

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...

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......

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 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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!...

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is...

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is...

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...

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

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