Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWhen 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 god like a soldier.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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 god like a soldier.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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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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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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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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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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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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