If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAn ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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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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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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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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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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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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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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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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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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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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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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