Rudyard Kipling's Quotes

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

It's clever, but is it Art?

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

If 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.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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 gawd like a soldier.