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Rudyard Kipling: Quotes

  • Games and Gambling
    Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.Rudyard Kipling: Plain Tales from the Hills
  • Gardens
    Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
    That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees.
    Rudyard Kipling
  • Language
    Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.Rudyard Kipling
  • Military
    For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!”
    But it's “Savior of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot.
    Rudyard Kipling
  • Peoples and Places
    Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
    Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat.
    Rudyard Kipling
  • Peoples and Places
    On the road to Mandalay,
    Where the flyin'-fishes play,
    An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
    Rudyard Kipling
  • Questions
    I keep six honest serving-men
    (They taught me all I knew);
    Their names are What and Why and When
    And How and Where And Who.
    Rudyard Kipling
  • Self-Control
    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; . . .
    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.
    Rudyard Kipling
  • Simplicity
    Teach us Delight in simple things,
    And Mirth that has no bitter springs.
    Rudyard Kipling
  • Smoking
    A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.Rudyard Kipling
  • Women
    The female of the species is more deadly than the male.Rudyard Kipling