RUDYARD KIPLING

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.

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.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

It's clever, but is it Art?

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

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

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!

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

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.

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!'

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 neighbours.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

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

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

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