Rudyard Kipling

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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

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

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

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.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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

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

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

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

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

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

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