Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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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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They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
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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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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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And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
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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.
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There's no jealousy in the grave.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods.
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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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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.
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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus. It's all one, says the Sapper. There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!
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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!
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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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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.