If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
RUDYARD KIPLINGBorrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThere is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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 KIPLINGMany religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNo printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThere is no sin greater than ignorance.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThe silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWe’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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 KIPLINGWe are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAn ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThere’s no jealousy in the grave.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
RUDYARD KIPLINGBe slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAt two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
RUDYARD KIPLING