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

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
- Rudyard Kipling Quote

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
- Rudyard Kipling Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
- Rudyard Kipling Quote

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Quote

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
- Rudyard Kipling Quote

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
- Rudyard Kipling Quote

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

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
- Rudyard Kipling Quote

He travels the fastest who travels alone.
- Rudyard Kipling Quote

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

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
- Rudyard Kipling Quote

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.
- Rudyard Kipling Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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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.
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Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.
- Rudyard Kipling Quote

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

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