Rudyard Kipling famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Fear #Liars

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.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Leadership #Law #Sky

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

#Book #Wine #Men

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Mother #Parenting #Reality

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Inspirational #Life Lesson #Believe

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Success #Failure #Excuse

Delight in the little things.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Healing #Delight #Littles

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.'
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Cat #Wish #Caves

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#People #Shadow #Ends

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

#Theatre #Losing #Blame

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

#San Francisco #Drawbacks

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

#Children #Heart #Adoption

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

#Beautiful #Garden #Sight

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

#Powerful #Humanity #Drug

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.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#People #May #Want

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

#War #Father #Lied

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.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Mean #Men #Self

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

#Mistake #Made #Made A Mistake

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

#Tree #Poetry #Sun

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

#Travel #Home #Men

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.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Doors #Agony #Skulls

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

#Cat #Pride #Walks

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Too Much #Asia #West

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Fire #Numbers #Balls

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;!
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Son #Men #Doubt

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

#Courage #Heart #Bravery

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

#Creativity #Thinking #Waiting

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

#Horse #War #Four

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

#Spring #Teaching #Simple

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Inspirational #Funny #Country

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Mother #Prayer #Soul

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Cities #San Francisco #People

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Knowledge #Purple #Belief

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.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Leadership #Teacher #Book

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

#Gratitude #Cheer #Garden

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Writing #History #Stories

He travels the fastest who travels alone.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Travel #Originality #Conformity

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Nature #Trouble #Neighbour

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Running #Witty #Work

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Women #Science #Males

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Fall #Learning #Looks

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

#Kissing #Men #Eggs

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Equality #People #Diversity

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Powerful #Reading #Health

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Birthday #Son #Men

It's clever, but is it Art?
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Art #Clever

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Mad #Insanity #Madness

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Clever #Men #Needs

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

#Mother #Daughter #House

Payday came and with it beer
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Beer #Payday

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

#Meaningful #Adventure #Moments

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

#Uplifting #Memorial Day #Freedom

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Ignorance #Remember #Sin

Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Enough #Productivity

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Women #Intuition #Certainty

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

#Power #Two #Triumph

(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.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Childhood #Preparation #Unhappy

...he will be our friend for always and always and always.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Animal

Believe the best of everybody.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Inspirational #Believe

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

#Lying #Eye #Garden

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.'
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Dog #Men #Names

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

#Dog #Politics #Concern

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.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Sleep #Heart #Moon

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

#Men #Effort #Too Much

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.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Life #Running #Hurt

Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Misunderstood #West #East

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Fear #Doubt

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

#Men #Forgiving #Nuisance

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.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Tea #Week #Leaks

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Humble #Sacrifice

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Unity #Packs

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

#Land #Burma

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Military #Army #Men

He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Baby #Cat #Moon

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Angel #Forever #Hammers

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

#Men #Thinking #Bullets

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.'
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Temptation #Sloth #Lazy

... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Military #Gentleman #Officers

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Tombstone #Lying #Fighting

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Men #Meals #Culture

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
-- Rudyard Kipling

#War #Gun #Devil

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!
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Dream #England #Paint

Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Brother #Tails #Behinds

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Gardening #Done #Half

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Mean #Winning #Gambling

No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#New York #Reflection #Pigs

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Sea #Unhappy #Sailor

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!
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Lying #Two #Earth

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Pay #Abundance #Said

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Fire #Pieces #Doe

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Teeth #Toads

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Men #Folly #Meddling

What is the moral? Who rides may read.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Reading #May #Riding

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!
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Money #Art #Stars

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Women #Land #Maidens

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Women #Heart #Home

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.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Mean #Worry #Pieces

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Failure #England #Failing

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!
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Sheep #Black #Gentleman

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.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Years #Mind #Half