Rudyard Kipling

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

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

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.

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

Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed bucketshop of a refrigerator called England.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

The sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one.

'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.