Rudyard Kipling

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

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?'

Flowers are not made by singing Oh how beautiful and sitting in the shade.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

The elephants a gentleman.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core it takes a gale and more than a gale to put their ship ashore.

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

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

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.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven’t had any tea for a week… The bottom is out of the Universe.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Ive taken my fun where Ive found it.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

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

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight who has seen the campfire burning who is quick to read the noises of the night

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

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

It's clever, but is it Art?

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.

All we have of freedom / All we use or know/ This our fathers bought for us / Long and long ago.

All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

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

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

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

Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.

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?"

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

The Navy is very old and very wise.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

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

I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

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

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

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.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it you will be lonely often and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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

None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

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

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!

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

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.

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.

This is a brief life but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments some meaningful adventures.