Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
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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 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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We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!
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When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
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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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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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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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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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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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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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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.
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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
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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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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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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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The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
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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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This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.