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

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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......

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...

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...

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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 you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the...

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the...

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...

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...

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...

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 people always ends by resembling its shadow.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told...

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told...

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.

It's clever, but is it Art?

It's clever, but is it Art?

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...