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It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"
Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.
However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.
If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.
But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.
Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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.
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.
We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.
If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.