734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

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.

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid.

He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

Something I owe to the soil that grew-More to the life that fed-But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head.

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

You have heard the beat of the off-shore wind, / And the thresh of the deep-sea rain; / You have heard the song - how long? how long? / Pull out on the trail again!

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.