All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
RUDYARD KIPLINGA brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
-
-
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.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
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.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
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.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
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.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
RUDYARD KIPLING -
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
RUDYARD KIPLING