Rudyard Kipling

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

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

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can tru ...

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is t ...

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone ast ...

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was bein ...

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies ...

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

The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteo ...

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye sh ...

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventu ...

No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He se ...