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
blaming head losing theirs
If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
alike cat places walks
He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
england lights ships watch
The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
compliments hope praise proper reaching sister
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
compliments ears hope praise proper reaching sister
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears
generally ginger sand
E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
road seventy shut woods
They shut the road through the woods / Seventy years ago.
abstain improving manners marriage pleasant terrible wise
Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage, But the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible thorn-bit of marriage
travel home men
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
beastly college rooms
And your rooms at college was beastly - more like a whore's than a man's.
jungle law true
Now this is the Law of the Jungle - as old and as true as the sky.
learn yellow
There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / But the things you will learn from the Yellow and Brown, / They'll 'elp you a lot with the White!
china dawn outer road thunder
On the road to Mandalay, / Where the flyin'-fishes play, / An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
concern impressed life politics
Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.