Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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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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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
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On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
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There's no jealousy in the grave.
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All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.
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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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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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Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
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What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
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I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!
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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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.
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No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!