Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Funny Quotes, Death Quotes

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

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The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

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Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

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Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

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You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

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All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.

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Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

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In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'

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A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

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

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There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'

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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

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There is no sin greater than ignorance.

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But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.

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