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
gold kid ordained praising silver sold son
If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son praising Allah: The kid was ordained to be sold
began english man preached spoke taught
It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When the English began to hate.
england lights ships watch
The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
fever great
The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees.
bought fathers freedom
All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago
bought fathers freedom
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
alike places walked
The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
people shadow ends
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
war father lied
If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.
san-francisco bay-area drawbacks
San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
travel home men
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
triumph disaster
Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
writing history stories
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
son men success-and-failure
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.