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Born in December 30, 1865 / Died in January 18, 1936 / India / English

Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind
On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay.
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
There's no jealousy in the grave.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
A woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain.
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one.
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place....
Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
Every woman knows all about everything.
Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.
All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire.
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves ââ?¬â?? but what the teachers are themselves.
And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!
Funny how the new things are the old things.