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
work men world
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
heart humble sacrifice
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.
army perfect sappers
I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!
life motivational mean
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.
military gentleman officers
... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;
men folly meddling
Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
reading may riding
What is the moral? Who rides may read.
angel forever hammers
But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.
tombstone lying fighting
And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."
men meals culture
The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
war gun devil
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
toads teeth knows
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
christmas laughter sadness
Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
beauty memories men
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.