Rudyard Kipling

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.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful, ' and sitting in the shade.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

It's clever, but is it Art?

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?'

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.