Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Quotes

• There is no sin greater than ignorance.

• If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—you’ll be a Man, my son!

• Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.

• They copied all they could follow
  but they couldn't copy my mind
  so I left them sweating and stealing
  a year and a half behind.

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

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

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

• 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 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.

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

• There's nothing so contagious in a boat as rivets going.

• There's no jealousy in the grave.

• Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
  Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth!
  Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain!
  Once there was The People - it shall never be again!

• I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

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

• Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

• I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

• Every woman knows all about everything.

• Funny how the new things are the old things.

• The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.