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
men thinking bullets
Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
sheep black gentleman
We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!
morning dark night
At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
love done ladders
We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!
mothers-day mom mother-daughter
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
men saint single-man
Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.
captains ships gale
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
old-things new-things
Funny how the new things are the old things.
art horse military
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse and all its sadlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.
gratitude cheer garden
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
running witty time
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
mistake made made-a-mistake
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
fall learning looks
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
cities san-francisco mad
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.