Rudyard Kipling

If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son praising Allah The kid was ordained to be sold

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

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table Bay).

For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins

You just don't know how to use the English language.

The place was packed as full of smells as a bale is of cotton.

. . . an angry skipper makes an unhappy crew . . .

Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order - never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request.

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular.

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.

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

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

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

It's clever, but is it Art

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

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

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them 'Hold on'

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

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

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