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
broken dinner england gardens knives lives men paths singing sitting start weeds
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing - 'Oh how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner knives
children men neither nor
Who are neither children nor gods, but men in a world of men!
fancy grow men nor red remarkable saints single thin
We ain't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints
land men might sing took
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, / He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; / An' what he thought 'e might require, / 'E went an' took - the same as me!
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.
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.
men effort too-much
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
life heart men
The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.
clever men fool
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
book wine men
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
birthday son men
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
men who-cares ethics
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
heart men patriotism
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.
brave-new-world men pay
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.