And Woody Allen has forty, beating out William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, and both Roosevelts.
Kipling has also been accused of being a racist, believing in the white man's burden.
During the Iran-contra scandal, a congressman quoted Kipling as he praised the loyalty of Ollie North.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called on Kipling following a bomb attack in 1984.
More than 50 unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling have been discovered by a US scholar.
Kipling saw that transport is civilisation, and it is transport that is addressed by the proposals.
After school in England, the Bombay-born Kipling spent formative years in India as a young man.
And the sea, as Rudyard Kipling said, does not cease to be the sea.
He claimed a conspiracy and quoted poetry in his defence - a favourite was Rudyard Kipling's "If".
Probably Mr Gilmour's greatest success is in evoking the private life (about which Kipling was very discreet).
Kipling was born in Mumbai, India, and moved to England for schooling when he was five years old.
Some, mainly older, readers could launch effortlessly into several verses of Tennyson or Kipling they learned at school.
The owner of Mr Kipling and Oxo is selling off a number of brands to cut its debt levels.
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The collection includes letters from David Lloyd George, William Gladstone, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Even University of Maryland basketball coach Gary Williams quoted Kipling in the mid-1990s when his team was sucking wind.
Kipling, who had spent so much of his life defending hierarchy among the living, defended equality among the dead.
David Lloyd George, William Gladstone, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle and Darwin himself are on the list.
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The poems will be published alongside 1, 300 others in the first ever complete edition of Kipling's verse on 7 March.
Mr Gilmour's biography does not entirely live up to the claims that it makes to say something new about Kipling's relations with empire.
Mr Mehta went on to edit and revamp the hoary Pioneer newspaper, which had counted Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling as its contributors.
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One poem from 1899 comprises a diatribe against media intrusion titled The Press, which was one of Kipling's pet hates, echoing present day worries.
Kipling, who lived from 1865 to 1936, was best known for his fictional short stories including The Jungle Book and poems Mandalay and If.
But Kipling wrote that he was honoring Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, who led a raid by the Brits in 1895 that resulted in disastrous defeat.
The last 20 years of Kipling's life were overshadowed by death.
Men as varied as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ernest Hemingway, Steve Jobs, Rudyard Kipling, and Mark Twain were all recipients of the news of their own demise.
As it turns out, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is not the first to quote the popular English poet Rudyard Kipling at a time of great turmoil.
Worst of all, in 1914 Kipling used his influence to ensure that his son John obtained a commission in the Irish Guards, in spite of poor eyesight.
So did Kipling expect readers to approach the poem ironically?
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