Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
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At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
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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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How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?
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God help us for we knew the worst too young.
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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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And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
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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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I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.
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Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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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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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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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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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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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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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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At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.