There is no sin greater than ignorance. Rudyard Kipling More Quotes by Rudyard Kipling More Quotes From Rudyard Kipling The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling clevermenneeds I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling life-lessonkindnessinspirational Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. Rudyard Kipling learninglooksfall If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son. Rudyard Kipling success-and-failuremenson Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. Rudyard Kipling doubtfear He who faces no calamity gains no courage. Rudyard Kipling calamitygainsfaces Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted. Rudyard Kipling indiasun God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all. Rudyard Kipling heartlovemen The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. Rudyard Kipling lovelycareworld You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. Rudyard Kipling climateworrymean A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling soldierprayerwar Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice. Rudyard Kipling sacrificehumble 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 armycuttingthank-you Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels. Rudyard Kipling tinwheelslittles Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies. Rudyard Kipling politicspetdog We never pay anyone Dane-geld, Rudyard Kipling costgamesplay Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. Rudyard Kipling triumphtheatrelosing All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool. Rudyard Kipling moneymencountry it's always best to tell the truth. Rudyard Kipling telling-the-truth Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle. Rudyard Kipling charmingshirtsanomalies
