Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!
At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!
The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way. " The Lama in Kim
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
The Navy is very old and very wise.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!
Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.