Rudyard Kipling

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.

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

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

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

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

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

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

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.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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!'

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.

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.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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

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?'

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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!

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

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

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.

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

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.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

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