Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
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He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
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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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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
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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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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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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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What is the moral? Who rides may read.
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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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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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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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Payday came and with it beer.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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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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Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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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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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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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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The Navy is very old and very wise.