If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son. Rudyard Kipling More Quotes by Rudyard Kipling More Quotes From Rudyard Kipling One cannot resist the lure of Africa. Rudyard Kipling lure Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot! Rudyard Kipling gun sleep country We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling failure excuse success The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers. Rudyard Kipling magic heart men God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling mothers-day christian god 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. Rudyard Kipling wellness want-something two Ah! What avails the classic bent Rudyard Kipling classic real art All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They! Rudyard Kipling nice sea thinking The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye. Rudyard Kipling garden eye lying He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart. Rudyard Kipling adoption heart children All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago Rudyard Kipling memorial-day freedom uplifting Payday came and with it beer Rudyard Kipling payday drinking beer When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.' Rudyard Kipling dog friendship men For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. Rudyard Kipling wolf-packs jungle-book unity If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Rudyard Kipling stories writing history We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah! Rudyard Kipling black gentleman sheep Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. Rudyard Kipling asia too-much west A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Rudyard Kipling absolute-certainty intuition women Favouritism governed kissage, Rudyard Kipling kissing age doe 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. Rudyard Kipling evil men war
