~ Rudyard Kipling Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I am Gunga Din.

[MysteRy]

Sing for faith and hope are high - None so true as you and I - Sing the Lovers' Litany: 'Love like ours can never die!'

[MysteRy]

Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

[MysteRy]

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

[MysteRy]

For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that and 'Chuck 'im out the brute.' But it's 'Savior of 'is country ' when the guns begin to shoot.

[MysteRy]

If I were hanged on the highest hill Mother o' mine O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine O mother o' mine!

[MysteRy]

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.

[MysteRy]

There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'

[MysteRy]

Nations have passed away and left no traces And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

[MysteRy]

A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair - (Even as you or I!)

[MysteRy]

And only the Master shall praise us and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working and each in his separate star Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of things as They Are!

[MysteRy]

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; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!