Rudyard Kipling Quotes

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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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.
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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