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
allah created english mad mankind
For Allah created the English mad - the maddest of all mankind!
man
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
eating egg kissed kisses-and-kissing man moustache wax
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt.
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
clever fool fools-and-foolishness manage needs silliest woman
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool
cut man married
You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That a young man married is a young man marred
began english man preached spoke taught
It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When the English began to hate.
salt
Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?
judy lady sisters
For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady / Are sisters under their skins!
draw god sees separate shall
And, each in his separate star, / Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the God of things as they are!
glasgow heard lie paid prayed soul starve
Stiff-necked Glasgow beggar! I've heard he's prayed for my soul, / But he couldn't lie if you paid him, and he'd starve before he stole.
bent follow fool fools-and-foolishness natural
But a fool must follow his natural bent / (Even as you and I!).
fears liars worst
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears
army army-and-navy cold
Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain.