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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Rudyard Kipling

Women

Afghanistan

Jest

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

Rudyard Kipling

Failure

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

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

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

Rudyard Kipling

Worth

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

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

Quotations

It's clever, but is it Art?

Rudyard Kipling

Art

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

Rudyard Kipling

Stairs

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

Trouble

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

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!'

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Rudyard Kipling

Chicago

Desire

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

Rudyard Kipling

History