24 Rudyard Kipling Quotes for You to Enjoy

Rudyard Kipling

English Writer

Born: Dec 30, 1865

Died: Jan 18, 1936

He Man More People Would You

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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling

God Made Everywhere Could He Mother's Day Mothers Therefore

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling

Failure Single Excuse Forty Reasons Million

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling

Best Trouble Believe Saves Everybody Always Prefer Much

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. Rudyard Kipling

You Man Son World Losing Will Others Everything Be A Man About More Blaming Wits While Your Yours Keep

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Rudyard Kipling

Man Woman Guess More Than Accurate Much Certainty

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. Rudyard Kipling

People Equality Else Everyone Everyone Else Like Us

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. Rudyard Kipling

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. Rudyard Kipling

You Backwards Fall Down Never Look Stairs

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Rudyard Kipling

First Country Smell Understanding Foreign Foreign Country Condition

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!' Rudyard Kipling

You Heart Will Long Gone Nothing Says Nerve Except Force Hold After Which Them Turn Your Serve

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. Rudyard Kipling

Love Patience Man Heaven Us Grant

He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling

Alone Travel He Who Travels Fastest

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Rudyard Kipling

Mom Worth Mother Ounce Pound Clergy

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

Pay Must Sin Two

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling

Needs Man Woman Fool Clever Silliest Clever Man Very Manage

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Rudyard Kipling

Women People Beauty Francisco Insane Insane People Mad City Remarkable Part Perfectly Most Women Are San San Francisco Inhabited Whose

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling

Alone Down Throne He Up Who Travels Fastest

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. Rudyard Kipling

Nature Yourself Trouble Neighbours Borrow Lend Your

Everyone is more or less mad on one point. Rudyard Kipling

Everyone Mad More More Or Less Point Less

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

Worth Seconds Distance Run Minute Sixty Unforgiving Fill

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?' Rudyard Kipling

Art Heart Joy World Rude Seen First Devil Pretty Had Till Leaves His Behind Sketch Mighty Whispered

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. Rudyard Kipling

You Once Never Him Proved Get Again Paid Paying Rid

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