A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAll 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!
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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 travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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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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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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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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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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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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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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