Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son!

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

Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

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

All the people like us are We, And everyone else is They.

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

But that is another story.

No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair - (Even as you or I!)

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of things as They Are!

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

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

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.