Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
824
AUTHOR:
Rudyard Kipling (18651936)
QUOTATION:
Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War.
ATTRIBUTION:
RUDYARD KIPLING, The Ballad of the Kings Jest, stanza 5, The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: Departmental Ditties and Barrack-Room Ballads, vol. 25, p. 234 (1941, reprinted 1970).