Rudyard Kipling

The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

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

Nations have passed away and left no traces And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases They fell because their peoples were not fit.

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

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

If I were hanged on the highest hill Mother o' mine O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine O mother o' mine!

Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!

Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I am Gunga Din.

Sing for faith and hope are high - None so true as you and I - Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"

Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

Gawd knows and 'E won't split on a pal.

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

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

For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

What should they know of England who only England know?

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.