734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.

A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.

When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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

There aren’t twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don’t care.

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, “A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”

However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today – human beings and Germans.

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.