The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWe’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Believe the best of everybody.
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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.
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War 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.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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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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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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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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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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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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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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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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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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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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