Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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What is the moral? Who rides may read.
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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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Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
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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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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
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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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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
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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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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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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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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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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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...he will be our friend for always and always and always.
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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.
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Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — Twenty bridges or twenty two — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.
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There's no jealousy in the grave.
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If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.