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 KIPLINGAll 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 KIPLINGKeep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThere’s no jealousy in the grave.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWhat is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
RUDYARD KIPLINGToo much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
RUDYARD KIPLINGHe travels the fastest who travels alone.
RUDYARD KIPLINGGod could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
RUDYARD KIPLINGOne cannot resist the lure of Africa.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNow India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
RUDYARD KIPLINGLiterature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWhen 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 KIPLINGBe slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
RUDYARD KIPLINGHe who faces no calamity gains no courage.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAll sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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 KIPLING