It is always a temptation for a reach and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: “Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away.” And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we’ve proved it again […]
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
And when they bore me overmuch, I will not shake mine ears, Recalling many thousand such whom I have bored to tears. And when they labor to impress, I will not doubt nor scoff; Since I myself have done no less and – sometimes pulled it off! Yea, as we are and we are not, […]
Though I’ve belted you and flayed you, By the livin’ Gawd that made you’ You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody – it saves so much trouble.
Payday came and with it beer.
Don’t you wait where the trees are, When the lightnings play, Nor don’t you hate where Bees are, Or else they’ll pine away. Pine away – dwine away – Anything to leave you! But if you never grieve your Bees, Your Bees’ll never grieve you.
If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: “It’s clever, but is it Art?”
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme – When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time? It is not learning, grace nor gear, Nor easy meat and drink, But bitter […]
Love and Death once ceased their strife At the Tavern of Man’s Life. Called for wine, and threw-alas!- Each his quiver on the grass. When the bout was o’er they found Mingled arrows strewed the ground. Hastily they gathered then Each the lives and loves of men. Ah, the fateful dawn deceived! Mingled arrows each […]
