Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul. . . If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?
When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.
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.
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.
There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.
The heart of a man to the heart of a maid- Light of my tents, be fleet- Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet.
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't!
Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep