Rudyard KiplingThinkers

Achievement is hard work. Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Chicago is a 'real-city', inhabited by savages.

A Cigar is a smoke while a woman is only a woman.

Cricket (sport) is casting a ball at three straight sticks and defending the same with a fourth.

Depression is like a light turned into a room, only a light of blackness.

Fiction is truth's elder sister in that no one in the world knew what truth was till somebody had told a story.

The Garden is not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Hard work is hard. Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Imperialism is a sort of forcible evangelizing.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.