Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood.
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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
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We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!
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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
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These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
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Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.
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If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!
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Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
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Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
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What is the moral? Who rides may read.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
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Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by think of it looking on We As only a sort of They!
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He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!
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The Navy is very old and very wise.