Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.
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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
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Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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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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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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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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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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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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Every woman knows all about everything.
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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
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Payday came and with it beer.
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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
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You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
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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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What is the moral? Who rides may read.