Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 December 1865
CityMumbai, India
mothers-day mom mother-daughter
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
old-things new-things
Funny how the new things are the old things.
uplifting memorial-day freedom
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
dog politics concern
Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
gratitude cheer garden
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
leadership teacher book
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.
land burma knows
This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about.
doors agony skulls
One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.
leadership education learning
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.
love done ladders
We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!
dream england paint
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!
funny marriage cigarette-smoke
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
thank-you cutting army
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.
judging done littles
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.