Rudyard Kipling Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”

“A people always ends by resembling its shadow.”

“Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.”

“Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.”

“If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.”

“If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'”

“And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.”