Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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What is the moral? Who rides may read.
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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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Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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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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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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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.
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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.
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At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
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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 have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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There's no jealousy in the grave.