The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
RUDYARD KIPLINGPoliticians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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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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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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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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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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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.
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If 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.
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When 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.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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