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
inspirational believe
Believe the best of everybody.
mothers-day mom parenting
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
deaths died led lives mine watched
The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine
paid
Ye thought? Ye are not paid to think.
travels
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
good memory nor stay style talk walked women
'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
empire imperial
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
bent follow fool fools-and-foolishness natural
But a fool must follow his natural bent / (Even as you and I!).
change jest mind nature proved time
Have it jest as you've a mind to, but I've proved it time on time, / If you want to change her nature you have got to give her lime.
alike cat places walks
He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
He who rebukes the world is rebuked by the world
blood lord paid price
If blood be the price of admiralty, / Lord God, we ha' paid in full!
fear jungle shadow sigh softly
Through the Jungle very softly flits a shadow and a sigh - / He is Fear, O Little Hunter, he is Fear!
cosmos ego
You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos