Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
RUDYARD KIPLINGTake everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWe are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
RUDYARD KIPLINGBeware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThere is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
RUDYARD KIPLINGPolitics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIt’s always best to tell the truth.
RUDYARD KIPLINGI always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWhen 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 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
RUDYARD KIPLINGKeep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWhat is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWe’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
RUDYARD KIPLINGA woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
RUDYARD KIPLINGI 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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWar is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
RUDYARD KIPLING