Rudyard Kipling Quotes - Page 3

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

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

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

Believe the best of everybody.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

Each dog barks in his own yard!

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

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

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

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

it's always best to tell the truth.

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

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