The best Quotes by Joseph Rudyard Kipling

The best Quotes by Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888).

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

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

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

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It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

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The world breaks us all and afterwards, some are stronger at the broken places.

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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