Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.
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We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!
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They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.
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God help us for we knew the worst too young.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
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Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!
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There is no harm in a man's cub.
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The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
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How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?
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No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
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The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
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I keep six honest serving men.
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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
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The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.
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She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.