Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.Rudyard Kipling: Plain Tales from the Hills
Gardens
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees. Rudyard Kipling
Language
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.Rudyard Kipling
Military
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!” But it's “Savior of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot. Rudyard Kipling
Peoples and Places
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat. Rudyard Kipling
Peoples and Places
On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay! Rudyard Kipling
Questions
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where And Who. Rudyard Kipling
Self-Control
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; . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. Rudyard Kipling
Simplicity
Teach us Delight in simple things, And Mirth that has no bitter springs. Rudyard Kipling
Smoking
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.Rudyard Kipling
Women
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.Rudyard Kipling
