Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;        If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster     And treat those two impostors just the same;    If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken     Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,     And stoop and bu

The Fore and Aft had enjoyed unbroken peace for five days, and were beginning, in spite of dysentery, to recover their nerve. But they were not happy, for they did not know the work in hand, and had they known, would not have known how to do it. Throughout those five days in which old soldiers might have taught them the craft of the game, they discussed together their misadventures in the past — how such an one was alive at dawn and dead ere the dusk

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.

Here was a new craft that a man could tuck away in his head and by the look of the large wide world unfolding itself before him, it seemed that the more a man knew the better for him.

If you want something and don' get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price

I see that ye are dogs. I go from you to my own people- if they be my own people.

When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke. All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call civilization.

came because I wished to see thee—misguided by the Red Mist of affection.

Whether ye rise for the sake of a creed, Or riot in hope of spoil, Equally will I punish the deed, Equally check the broil; No wise permitting injustice at all From whatever doctrine it springs— But—whether ye follow Priapus or Paul, I care for none of these things." Gallio's Song

To discuss medicine before the ignorant is of one piece with teaching the peacock to sing,' said the hakim. 'True courtesy,' Kim echoed, 'is very often inattention.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . . If you can wait and not be tired by waiting . . . If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim . . . If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.

Una donna può perdonare l'uomo che ha rovinato tutto il lavoro della sua vita, se quest'uomo saprà darle amore; un uomo, invece, potrà perdonare chi ha distrutto il suo amore, ma non chi ha distrutto il suo lavoro. [La luce che si spense]

By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your gods and you.

His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow, and

One view called me to another; one hill top to its fellow, half across the country, and since I could answer at no more trouble than the snapping forward of a lever, I let the country flow under my wheels.

Indeed, indeed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.

The hot wine had filled him. Under the stars he mocked me—therefore I killed him!

It is hard to live alone in the dark, confusing the day and night; dropping to sleep through sheer weariness at mid-day, and rising restless in the chill of the dawn. At first Dick, on his awakenings, would grope along the corridors of the chambers till he heard some one snore. Then he would know that the day had not yet come, and return wearily to his bedroom.

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;. If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster.

for by the roadside trundled the very Wheel itself, eating, drinking, trading, marrying, and quarrelling—all warmly alive.

To abstain from action is well—except to acquire merit.' 'At the Gates of Learning we were taught that to abstain from action was unbefitting a Sahib.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it

e disse ben poco altresì di quella mostruosa gibbosità, intrisa di sangue, che si chiama il Sabotino, e che fu presa, perduta e ripresa, nel modo più glorioso, durante i primi giorni della guerra; mentre ora giaceva lì, sotto di noi, apparentemente calma, come un pascolo montano

and he sat on all their laps one after the other, because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house-mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in