We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWe’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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.
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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.
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A Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling
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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.
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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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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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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 god like a soldier.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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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!
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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