Rudyard Kipling

“If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.”

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

“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.”

“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”