Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including “The Man Who Would Be King”.
Born: December 30, 1865, Mumbai, India
Died: January 18, 1936, London, United Kingdom
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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.
