Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice. Rudyard Kipling More Quotes by Rudyard Kipling More Quotes From Rudyard Kipling One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him. Rudyard Kipling readingmenbook I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth. Rudyard Kipling i-speak-the-truthspeak-the-truthspeak In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper. Rudyard Kipling jungledependstemper We be of one blood, ye and I Rudyard Kipling childrens-booksblood Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. Rudyard Kipling patiencelovemen Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, Rudyard Kipling seatreelittles One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man Rudyard Kipling halfbrothermen And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East." Rudyard Kipling fightingtombstonelying Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew. Rudyard Kipling headstonegravestonememorial Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? Rudyard Kipling accountsfollylord Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. Rudyard Kipling youthbirthdaylong Funny how the new things are the old things. Rudyard Kipling new-thingsold-things Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent. Rudyard Kipling our-lovegiveninterest What is a woman that you forsake her, Rudyard Kipling womenhomeheart Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. Rudyard Kipling ballsfirenumbers The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes. Rudyard Kipling toadsteethknows Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. Rudyard Kipling sisterdogart Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. Rudyard Kipling gardeningdonereligion For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done. Rudyard Kipling selfviewsscience Brother, thy tail hangs down behind. Rudyard Kipling behindsbrothertails
