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
goal fool
...the flannelled fools at the wicket or the mudied oafs at the goals...
lying boys desire
A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
boys people demand
After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.
dog yards bark
Each dog barks in his own yard!
men sensible
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
care twenties doe
At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
graves
There's no jealousy in the grave.
our-love given interest
Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
ignorance sin greater
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
stars children eye
Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!
heart men submarines
Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service
telling-the-truth
it's always best to tell the truth.
splits detachment legion
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
women heart home
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?