Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
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Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
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Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
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Those who only know England know not England.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.
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Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way.
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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.
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Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!
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Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.
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One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
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Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service.
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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.