“As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!”
“Buy a pup and your money will buy. Love unflinching that cannot lie.”
“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”
“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
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.
"Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching that cannot lie."
"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."
Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
“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.
I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould; 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 brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling.
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
“If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price”
“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.