This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. Rudyard Kipling More Quotes by Rudyard Kipling More Quotes From Rudyard Kipling Smells are surer than sounds or sights Rudyard Kipling women sight heart A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England. Rudyard Kipling fog cities summer They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind. Rudyard Kipling half mind years Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears. Rudyard Kipling sister women hope A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth. Rudyard Kipling desire boys lying But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die. Rudyard Kipling law love lying Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service Rudyard Kipling submarines heart men When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless. Rudyard Kipling men night world Well, if I am a man, a man I must become. Rudyard Kipling wells ifs men There's no jealousy in the grave. Rudyard Kipling graves I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man. Rudyard Kipling dead-man horse men An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew. Rudyard Kipling unhappy sailor sea I've taken my fun where I've found it. Rudyard Kipling taken found fun All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells. Rudyard Kipling sensible men It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. Rudyard Kipling falling-in-love sight life More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. Rudyard Kipling work men world As the dawn comes up like thunder. Rudyard Kipling thunder dawn morning The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Rudyard Kipling inspirational funny country She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life. Rudyard Kipling humans looks Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate. Rudyard Kipling purpose religious people
