Rudyard Kipling

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

“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.”

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”

“We be of one blood, ye and I.”

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble.”

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.”

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

“Take up the White Man's burden.”

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.”

“Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky.”

“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”

“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”

“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”

“A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”

“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.”

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”