Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.
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Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.
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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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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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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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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
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We be of one blood, ye and I.
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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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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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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
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When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
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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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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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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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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
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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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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.