What stands if freedom fall? Rudyard Kipling More Quotes by Rudyard Kipling More Quotes From Rudyard Kipling 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 evilmenwar An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Rudyard Kipling mothers-dayparentingmom It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world. Rudyard Kipling bookworldthinking I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. Rudyard Kipling realcitiesdesire One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges. Rudyard Kipling scorescholarrage The Navy is very old and very wise. Rudyard Kipling navywisebook Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream. Rudyard Kipling dream San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Rudyard Kipling san-franciscocitiespeople The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth Rudyard Kipling dialectinsultinglanguage Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink. Rudyard Kipling efforttoo-muchmen I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this. Rudyard Kipling mentwoworld Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit. Rudyard Kipling causessimplegiving If England was what England seems, Rudyard Kipling paintenglanddream When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew! Rudyard Kipling twolyingneeds Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice. Rudyard Kipling cowardiceworstkind Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it. Rudyard Kipling selfmenmean O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. Rudyard Kipling linessoulhero Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. Rudyard Kipling anxietynaturetrouble It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs. Rudyard Kipling eyeheartblood When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore. Rudyard Kipling galeshipscaptains
