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
bargain either price seriously sign tried
If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price
altered building since trade
How very little, since things were made, / Things have altered in the building trade.
inspirational fear liars
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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!
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!