Rudyard Kipling
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
“The female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
“Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run.”
“Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.”
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you—”