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 kindness life-lesson
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
england knows
Those who only know England know not England.
india sun
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
birthday son men
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
meaningful adventure moments
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
nature anxiety trouble
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
winter thinking green
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
success failure excuse
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
captains ships gale
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
mothers-day mom parenting
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
hero soul lines
O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
clever men fool
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
want bargaining what-you-want
If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
theatre triumph losing
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.