All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
Rudyard Kipling
Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all.
Rudyard Kipling
Love Quotes
I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
Rudyard Kipling
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling
Love Quotes
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
Rudyard Kipling
Love Quotes
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
Rudyard Kipling
Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
Rudyard Kipling
Friendship Quotes
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.