Rudyard Kipling quotes - page 9

None but a grandmother should ever oversee a child. Mothers are only fit for bearing. (Rudyard Kipling)
There is too much Asia and she is too old. You cannot reform a lady of many lovers, and Asia has been insatiable in her flirtations aforetime. She will never attend Sunday-school or learn to vote save with swords for tickets. View quote
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Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat. View quote
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It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?' Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers. View quote
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When you get to a man in the case, They're like as a row of pins - For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins! View quote
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Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists upon being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle. The host never knows which side of his nature is going to turn up next. View quote
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Every woman knows all about everything. View quote
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There's no jealousy in the grave. View quote
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Funny how the new things are the old things. View quote
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My heart is so tired. View quote
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If you can dream-and not make dreams your master; If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same. (Rudyard Kipling)
I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. View quote
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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. View quote
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No easy hope or lies Shall bring us to our goal, But iron sacrifice Of body, will, and soul. View quote
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We are not built to comprehend a lie, We can neither love nor pity nor forgive, If you make a slip in handling us you die! View quote
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Be humble, as you crawl beneath our rods!- Our touch can alter all created things, We are everything on earth-except The Gods! View quote
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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. View quote
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There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall?" []. View quote
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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don't count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. View quote
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Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother. View quote
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If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss. (Rudyard Kipling)
Whatever comes or does not come, we men must not be afraid. View quote
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There is none like to me! View quote
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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. View quote
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves but what the teachers are themselves. View quote
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