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
sister dog brother
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
god giving tangled
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
inspirational giving can-do
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.
motivational men thought-provoking
I keep six honest serving men.
fun taken found
I've taken my fun where I've found it.
sleep police uniforms
Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
years mind half
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
brother tails behinds
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
temptation sloth lazy
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'
substance done records
I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
shoes two brain
Something I owe to the soil that grew-More to the life that fed-But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head.
judging done littles
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
funny marriage cigarette-smoke
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
men snow frozen
There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'