Men Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

There is no harm in a man's cub.

— Rudyard Kipling

I keep six honest serving men.

— Rudyard Kipling

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

— Rudyard Kipling

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

— Rudyard Kipling

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

— Rudyard Kipling

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

— Rudyard Kipling

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

— Rudyard Kipling

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do…

— Rudyard Kipling

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

— Rudyard Kipling

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man…

— Rudyard Kipling

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes…

— Rudyard Kipling

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because…

— Rudyard Kipling

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were…

— Rudyard Kipling

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d…

— Rudyard Kipling

One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your…

— Rudyard Kipling

The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart…

— Rudyard Kipling

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things.…

— Rudyard Kipling

OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s…

— Rudyard Kipling

Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our…

— Rudyard Kipling

No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous…

— Rudyard Kipling

The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock brothers Resting…

— Rudyard Kipling

“If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some…

— Rudyard Kipling

“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither…

— Rudyard Kipling

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's…

— Rudyard Kipling

I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I…

— Rudyard Kipling

Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the…

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

— Rudyard Kipling

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

— Rudyard Kipling

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

— Rudyard Kipling

There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of…

— Rudyard Kipling

Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the…

— Rudyard Kipling

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How…

— Rudyard Kipling

I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it--…

— Rudyard Kipling

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as…

— Rudyard Kipling

When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild…

— Rudyard Kipling