Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 December 1865
CityMumbai, India
thank-you cutting army
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.
success failure excuse
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
simple giving naked
Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
children heart adoption
He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
nature anxiety trouble
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
power two triumph
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
lying eye garden
The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
book wine men
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
birthday son men
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.
powerful humanity drug
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
leadership law sky
Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
inspirational funny country
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
fear doubt
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
inspirational kindness life-lesson
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.