Rudyard Kipling

Country United Kingdom
Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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Quotes 18
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Uncategorized
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. r Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Uncategorized
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. Uncategorized
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Uncategorized
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Uncategorized
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. Uncategorized
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. Uncategorized
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! Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Uncategorized
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. Uncategorized
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Uncategorized