Rudyard Kipling on women

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.

He wrapped himself in quotations⁠—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)

• Animals
• Men

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

• Beauty