Rudyard Kipling Quotes
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. A people always ends by resembling its shadow. A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. 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. 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?" Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. Everyone is more or less mad on one point. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. He travels the fastest who travels alone. He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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