Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

There is but one task for all --One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat" (23).

It is not any common earth, Water or wood or air, But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare.

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

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.

Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, -- which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man.

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One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seeking him half your daysIf you find him before the other.---The Thousandth Man

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

It's clever but is it art?

There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.

What should they know of England who only England know?

For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.

Gawd knows and 'E won't split on a pal.

They're hangin' Danny Deever in the morning!

Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

Sing for faith and hope are high - None so true as you and I - Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"

Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I am Gunga Din.

Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.

If I were hanged on the highest hill Mother o' mine O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine O mother o' mine!

I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

All the people like us are We And everyone else is They.

For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that and "Chuck 'im out the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot.

But that is another story.

A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke.

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne He travels the fastest who travels alone.

An' I learned about women from 'er.

The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful, ' and sitting in the shade.