Rudyard Kipling Quotes

English - Writer | December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936

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

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GodMother's DayMothersMadeHe

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

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TravelUnderstandingCountryFirst

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

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CommunicationWordsPowerfulMankind

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

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BeautifulGardeningSingingSitting

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

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YouFallLookDownStairsNever

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

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BestBelieveTroubleAlwaysMuch

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

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FailureSingleFortyMillionReasons

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

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SonManLosingWorldYouWill

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

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WomanManMoreCertaintyThanMuch

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

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EqualityPeopleEveryoneUsLike

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

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GoodWomanSmokeOnly

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

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HistoryNeverForgottenWouldTaught

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