Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Topics: Drinks Quotes, Vice Quotes, Work Quotes

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one

The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one

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...

He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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!...

And How and Where and Who.

And How and Where and Who.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by...

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by...

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...

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

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

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman...

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman...

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut...

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut...