Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

There's no jealousy in the grave.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.

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

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it -- although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

'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.

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?''

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: 'Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.'

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.

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

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'

Every woman knows all about everything.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.

And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.''

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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

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

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; ''Hold on!''

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.

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

For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

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

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

I've just read that I'm dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part with it.

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

I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.