Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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...he will be our friend for always and always and always.
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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.
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I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.
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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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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
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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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Something I owe to the soil that grew-More to the life that fed-But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head.
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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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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
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Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
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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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When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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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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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.