Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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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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Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
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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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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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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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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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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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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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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 am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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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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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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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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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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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
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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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There's no jealousy in the grave.
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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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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!