“One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.”
More from Rudyard Kipling on Wisdom
“What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?”
“To hear is one thing, to know is another.”
“Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.”
“I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.”
“I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who”
“There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.”
“The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.”
“A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”
“I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.”
“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.”
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Cervantes
20 quotes“Honesty's the best policy.”
Aesop
19 quotes“Do not waste your pity on a scamp.”
Confucius
19 quotes“If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.”
Ben Franklin
18 quotes“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
Napoleon
16 quotes“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”
Cicero
15 quotes“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
Sir Winston Churchill
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George Washington
14 quotes“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
Khalil Gibran
14 quotes“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
William Penn
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