Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other.
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Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.
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Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .
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I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.
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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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As the dawn comes up like thunder.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
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I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'
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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.