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
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.
old-things new-things
Funny how the new things are the old things.
art horse military
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse and all its sadlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.
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.
running witty time
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
mistake made made-a-mistake
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
cities san-francisco mad
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
travel traveling-alone originality
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
tea week made
We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.
enough productivity
Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
mean men self
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.
men forgiving nuisance
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
courage heart bravery
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
mothers-day prayer motherhood
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.