All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
RUDYARD KIPLINGFor the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
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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.
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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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