Quotes By Rudyard Kipling

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

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

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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.

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

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.