Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
RUDYARD KIPLINGTake everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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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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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
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If 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.
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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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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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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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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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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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Delight in the little things.
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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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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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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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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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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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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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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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