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Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936] English

Rank: 11
Poet (with poems), Journalist

Children, Didactism, Freemasons, Modernism, Neoromanticism, Nonsense, Victorian, War

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King".

Alone, Art, Travel, Beauty, Best, Communication, Equality, Failure, Gardening, God, Good, Mom, Mother's Day, Nature, Patience, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.		101
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.	Failure	102
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.	Gardening	103
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.		104
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.		105
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.	Communication	106
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!'		107
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.	God, Mother's Day	108
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.		109
He travels the fastest who travels alone.	Alone, Travel	110
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.		111
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.	Good	112
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.	Women	113
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?'	Art	114
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.		115
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.		116
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.	Best	117
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.		118
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.	Equality	119
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.	Travel	120
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.		121
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.		122
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.	Patience	123
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.		124
It's clever, but is it Art?	Art	125
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.	Mom	126
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.	Nature	201
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.	Beauty	202
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.		203
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.		204
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.	Alone	205
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.		206
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.		207
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.		208
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!		209
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.		210
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.		211

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