Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.

As the dawn comes up like thunder.

The heart of a man to the heart of a maid- Light of my tents, be fleet- Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.