Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half child.
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.
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
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.
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die. '
I've taken my fun where I've found it.
But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.
And what should they know of England who only England know?
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.