A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Rudyard Kipling

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling

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.
Rudyard Kipling

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?"
Rudyard Kipling

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

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling


Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling

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

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling