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Rudyard Kipling
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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!
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Love
#Mother
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Mother
#Soul
#Body
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#History
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.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Desire
#Chicago
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!'
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Will
#Nothing
#Heart
#Force
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Love
#Patience
#Man
#Heaven
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.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Want
#Weight
#Fire
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Trouble
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Stairs
It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Art
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Quotations
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#People
#Beauty
#Women
#Remarkable
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Worth
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Country
#First
#Understanding
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Man
#Needs
#Woman
#Fool
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Failure
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.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Women
#Afghanistan
#Jest
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.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Children
#Being
#Animals
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?"
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Art
#Heart
#World
#Pretty
#First
#Devil
#Joy
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Words
#Mankind
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Man
#Mind
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#People
#Shadow
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Woman
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Man
#Woman
#Certainty
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#People
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Sin
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.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Old
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Trouble
#Nature
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Singing
#Gardens
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#God
#Mothers
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Mother
#Worth
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.
Rudyard Kipling,
English
Writer
#Will
#World
#Man
#Losing
#Son