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
tree poetry sun
Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
mother daughter house
Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
leadership teacher book
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.
leadership education learning
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
pages possibility endless-possibilities
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
pages possibility endless-possibilities
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
games play cost
We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!
morning dawn thunder
As the dawn comes up like thunder.
fall race age
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
pay abundance peter
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'
brother men sticks
One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man
running motto mongoose
The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
military army men
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
love-you noses movement
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards