Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

It's clever but is it art?

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste; For if "faint and forced the laughter," and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.