Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.
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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
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Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.
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Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too!
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
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The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
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The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die
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A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!
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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.
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'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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We be of one blood, ye and I.
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'