Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

“NOW this is the Law of the Jungle as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk th...”

“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”

“Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.”

“Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie.”

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”

“There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.”

“A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and...”

“If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If ...”

“There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and woman to fill our day;But when we are certain of sorrow in store,Why do we always arrange for more?Brothers & Sisters, I bid you bewareOf givin...”

“Threatened men live long.”

“I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)”

“All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization.”

“There is but one task for all --One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom ”

“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 ...”

“A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”

“What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?”

“(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of dis...”

“A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”

“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”