Rudyard Kipling Quotations | Page 4

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.

And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it ...

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

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.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

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.

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

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

Those who only know England know not England.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

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!

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't!

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

Delight in the little things.

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

Payday came and with it beer

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

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.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.

This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about.

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

It's clever, but is it Art?

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse and all its sadlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

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.

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'

Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.

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.

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep

I've taken my fun where I've found it.

I keep six honest serving men.

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

There is no harm in a man's cub.

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.