Rudyard Kipling

Quote: For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: Everyone is more or less mad on one point. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. [Rudyard Kipling]

Quote: Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. [Rudyard Kipling]

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