Rudyard Kipling
20 quotations
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
Four things greater than all things are,Women and Horses and Power and War.