Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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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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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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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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The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
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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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An unhappy childhood was not an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.
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There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'
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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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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!'
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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
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Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?
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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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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.
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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.
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They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
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And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.