"War is an ill thing, as I surely……" — Rudyard Kipling
"War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain."
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223 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling has 223 quotes on this site.
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the…
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all…
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon…
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I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps…
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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…
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
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... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by…
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the…
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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Dreaming men are haunted men.
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This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the…
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I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
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You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
— Herb Brooks
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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I might dream, but I am no dreamer.
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Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their…
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The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity,…
— Unknown Author
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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
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