Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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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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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
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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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Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!
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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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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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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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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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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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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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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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The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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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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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
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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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...he will be our friend for always and always and always.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.