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 KIPLINGA 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
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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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.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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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.
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Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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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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