Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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Rudyard Kipling

Profession : Writer

Birth : December 30, 1865

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

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Rudyard Kipling

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

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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.

Rudyard Kipling

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. 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.

Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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!'

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