"An ounce of mother is worth a pound…" — Rudyard Kipling
"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."
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223 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling has 223 quotes on this site.
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the…
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all…
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon…
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I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps…
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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with…
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
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... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by…
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More Clergy Quotes
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived,…
— Adolf Hitler
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
— Thomas Jefferson
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The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their…
— James Madison
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
— George Washington
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There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only…
— Albert Einstein
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The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.
— Unknown Author
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They…
— Leo Tolstoy
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