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

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Topics: Love Quotes

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!...

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told...

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told...

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

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

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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

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

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long...

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long...

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane...

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane...

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures...

Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures...

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

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

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

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

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

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that...

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that...

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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

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

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at...

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at...

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.