Rudyard Kipling

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

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

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

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

And only the Master shall praise us and only the Master shall blame And no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame But each for the joy of the working and each in his separate star Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of things as They Are!

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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

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

A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.

A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair - (Even as you or I!)

An' I learned about women from 'er.

The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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

No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.

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

But that is another story.

For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that and "Chuck 'im out the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot.