Rudyard Kipling

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.

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