We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling More Quotes by Rudyard Kipling More Quotes From Rudyard Kipling Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. Rudyard Kipling pups dog lying It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky. Rudyard Kipling sea blue hands Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past. Rudyard Kipling laughter sadness christmas It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, Rudyard Kipling sloth temptation funny Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. Rudyard Kipling white-man men son Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth. Rudyard Kipling birth terror people Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume. Rudyard Kipling costumes satan fashion You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? Rudyard Kipling tales fairy-tale desire Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me. Rudyard Kipling hunting next moon Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man! Rudyard Kipling loss stuff men Every woman knows all about everything. Rudyard Kipling knows Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart. Rudyard Kipling fishing sea heart The white moth to the closing vine, Rudyard Kipling white life blood Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made Rudyard Kipling weed garden men The beasts are very wise, Rudyard Kipling brother wise lying The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day. Rudyard Kipling cooking food men We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young! Rudyard Kipling done truth love As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! Rudyard Kipling return fire water Cities and Thrones and Powers Rudyard Kipling flower eye time It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. Rudyard Kipling eye sea heart
