Rudyard Kipling Famous Quotes
"On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay."
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
"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'"
"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."
"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it."
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.
"Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone."
"All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They."
The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
"What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it."
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."
I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
"Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again"
Funny how the new things are the old things.
There's no jealousy in the grave.
Every woman knows all about everything.
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling Quotations
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be. . .and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things."
Ecclesiates 1922 Bible
"Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid"
Robert Browning
The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell
"If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success."
John Van de Kamp
"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights."
Richard Milhous Nixon
"I hold it true,what'er befallI feel it, when I sorrow most'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."
Anatole Broyard
"I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry."
Maxine Waters