Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

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.

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

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!’

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

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

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

Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.

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.

A man’s mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

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