Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

Take up the White Man's burden,Send forth the best ye breed—Go, bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful ' and sitting in the shade.

The sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one.

Though I've belted you an' flayed you,By the livin' Gawd that made you,You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!"But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.

It's clever, but is it Art?

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst.

Little Friend of All the World.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him seesThat half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees.

The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'GradyAre sisters under their skins!

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:—"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade...

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade."To turn you out, to turn you out," the Color-Sergeant said.

God of our fathers, known of old,Lord of our far-flung battle line,Beneath whose awful Hand we holdDominion over palm and pine—Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,Lest we forget—lest we forget!

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

Hot and bothered.

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

There's a legion that never was 'listed,That carries no colors or crest.

I keep six honest serving men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.