Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#else #everyone #like #people #us

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#repair #tea #universe #world #tea

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

— Rudyard Kipling

#life #the-world #life

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#life

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#gardens #work #beauty

How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can? ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#life

There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall? ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#sacrifice #freedom

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#crocodile #curiosity #greed #kite #greed

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#childhood #life

TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew - Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told: ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#river #thames #london