Frases de Rudyard Kipling

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“Si en la lucha el destino te derriba.
Si todo en tu camino es cuesta arriba.

Si tu sonrisa es ansia insatisfecha.
Si hay faena excesiva y mala cosecha.

Si a tu caudal se contraponen diques,
date una tregua. ¡Pero no claudiques!”

“La intuición de una mujer es más precisa que la certeza de un hombre.”

“Hay dos cosas más grandes que todo lo demás. La primera es el amor y la segunda la guerra… Y como no sabemos en que va acabar la guerra, vida mía, hablemos de amor…”

“Al éxito y al fracaso, esos dos impostores, trátalos siempre con la misma indiferencia.”

“El éxito comienza en la voluntad”

“Nunca he cometido un error en mi vida. Al menos, ninguno que no haya podido justificar después.”

“No sólo éramos felices… ¡Además lo sabíamos!.”

“Las palabras son la más potente droga utilizada por la Humanidad.”

“No cabía la menor duda. Cerró los ojos y lo absorbió por completo. El sonido cesó de pronto.
—Vamos —murmuró a media voz—. Esto no es el fin.
El fin llegó luego con absoluta nitidez, como un arrullo entre dos ráfagas de lluvia. Mary Postgate soltó de golpe el aire entre los dientes y se estremeció de la cabeza a los pies.
Eso es —asintió con satisfacción, y volvió a la casa, poniendo patas arriba la rutina doméstica al darse el lujo de tomar un baño caliente antes del té, y después bajó con un aspecto que, al verla relajadamente tendida en el otro sofá, la señorita Fowler calificó de «¡muy atractivo!».”

“Entrometerse en el desatino del hombre es siempre una faena muy ingrata.”

“Seis honrados servidores
me enseñaron cuanto sé.
Sus nombres son cómo, cuándo,
dónde, qué, quién y por qué.”

“Si encomiendas a un hombre más de lo que puede buenamente hacer, lo hará. Si solamente le encomiendas lo que puede hacer, no hará nada.”

“Se aprende más de un erudito apasionado que de un montón de ganapanes de ardua brillantez.”

“Pero no podía mentir si le pagabas y moriría de hambre antes de robar.”

“Siempre me he inclinado a pensar bien de todo el mundo: evita muchos problemas.”

“No hay placer comparable al de encontrar un viejo amigo excepto el de logra uno nuevo.”

“Los peores embusteros son nuestros propios temores.”

“La oscuridad que conocemos nos fue otorgada como una gracia.”

“El poder sin responsabilidad. Esta es la prerrogativa de la ramera a través de los tiempos.”

“Dadme los cinco primeros años de la vida de un niño y tendréis el resto.”

“Cuando la tripulación y el capitán están cordialmente compenetrados, es preciso un temporal y más que un temporal para lanzar la nave a tierra.”

“Lleva a tu amigo Ha terminado con Hanuman, pero Hanuman no ha terminado con él.”

“Cuando tu Daemon esté a cargo, no intentes pensar conscientemente. Deriva, espera y obedece.”

“No hay pecado más grande quela ignorancia. Recuerda esto.”

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

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“There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and woman to fill our day;
But when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”

“I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don’t count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages”

“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.”

“All we have of freedom
All we use or know
This our fathers bought for us
Long and long ago”

“A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.”

“They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree.
Do you think he would squander souls?”

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

“It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?'
Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.”

“God help us for we knew the worst too young.”

“Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.”

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

“In the flush of the hot June prime,
O'ersleek flood-tides afire,
I hear him hurry the chime
To the bidding of checked Desire;
Till the sweated ringers tire
And the wild bob-majors die.
Could I wait for my turn in the godly choir?
(Shoal! 'Ware shoal!) Not I!”

“There is none like to me!' says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;
But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.”

“If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss.”

“Go back to Earth with a lip unsealed—go back with an open eye,
“And carry my word to the Sons of Men or ever ye come to die:
“That the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one—
“And the God that you took from a printed book be with you, Tomlinson!”

“And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.”

“We pulled for you when the wind was against us and the sails were low.
Will you never let us go?”

“Now I possess and am possessed of the land where I would be,
And the curve of half Earth's generous breast shall soothe and ravish me!”

“I've taken my fun where I've found it,
An' now I must pay for my fun,
For the more you 'ave known o' the others
The less will you settle to one.”

“We have fed our sea for a thousand years
And she calls us, still unfed,
Though there's never a wave of all her waves
But marks our English dead.”

“The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart;
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!”

“All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman, and am kind to his people—the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.”

“When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail,
Lie down till the leaders have spoken—it may be fair words shall prevail.”

“True. True talk,” said Kim solemnly. “Fools speak of a cat when a woman is brought to bed, for instance. I have heard them.”

“Take your friend away. He has done with Hanuman, but Hanuman has not done with him.”

“Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end;
Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise,
Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.”

“For to admire an' for to see,
For to be'old this world so wide—
It never done no good to me,
But I can't drop it if I tried!”