10 Rudyard Kipling Quotes on Life

Rudyard Kipling quotes on life

38. For to admire an' for to see, For to be'old this world so wide - It never done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried!

51. If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

55. Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

68. There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, Or the way of a man with a maid; But the fairest way to me is a ship's upon the sea In the heel of the North-East Trade.

77. More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

79. For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

95. When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought 'e might require, 'E went an' took - the same as me!

99. I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweet'earts, An' four o' the lot was prime. One was an 'arf-caste widow, One was a woman at Prome, One was the wife of a jemadar-sais, An' one is a girl at 'ome.

102. For 'im that doth not work must surely die; But that's no reason man should labour all 'Is life on one same shift - life's none so long.

103. It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world, Which you can read and care for just so long, But presently you feel that you will die Unless you get the page you're readin' done, An' turn another - likely not so good; But what you're after is to turn 'em all.