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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.


Rudyard Kipling

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
RUDYARD KIPLING Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
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With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is...
RUDYARD KIPLING In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were on...
NEIL GAIMAN If you can try to nap where someone's sitting,
Although there is another empty chair,
Then...
HENRY N. BEARD I Keep Six Honest Serving Men ..."

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me a...
RUDYARD KIPLING The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER It is easy to forget when you borrow money but easy to remember when you lend it.
VIKRANT PARSAI YOU ARE TOLD TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF, BUT I SAY LOVE THEM MORE THAN YOU LOVE YOURSELF FOR...
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU dont be hard on yourself for doing something wrong, be hard on yourself when you question your faith...
BAILEY CHANDRA Don't throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like...
CAROL CHANNING If I can't borrow your bicycle you definitely can't borrow my car
IDDI LUKOO Don't lie to yourself?
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Whats the point of changing everything about your lover? you dont love them entirely for who they ar...
AMIR RIVEROLL Demand your respect. Know what you want out of a man so he can manifest and become it... But that wo...
NERISSA IRVING In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
FRANK WILCZEK Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Neither lend money to a great man nor borrow it from a powerful one.
VIKRANT PARSAI Never refuse to borrow to finance your ideas,for each time you borrow,you are assisting your country...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a...
BIBLE Kipling: Where's your sense of humor?
Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it...
GRANT MORRISON Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
 DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome...
JOHN LLOYD An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
AMBROSE BIERCE Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
AMBROSE BIERCE Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
UNKNOWN Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one strikin...
HALFORD E. LUCCOCK They told me never fall in love, it never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now t...
MAC MILLER Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
AMBROSE BIERCE Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
AMBROSE BIERCE It is better to remove the weeds from your own garden, before you start with your neighbours.
DUTCH PROVERB I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an...
IAN WATSON And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS Consider yourself unlucky if your lover is sanguine in nature,because all your bedroom secrets will ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH If you lend your consciousness to someone else, you're a robot.
PRINCE Dont take life too seriously, you will not get out of it alive, laugh at your situation especially l...
SUPERNA BATHEJA Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS Dont force noone to see your worth, it doesnt matter how much you love them, love yourself first, ev...
JHERRERA Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then yo...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose y...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete str...
MARSHA BLACKBURN I dont want the kind of love thats in movies, I want my own kind,
LYNDSEY ANN-MARIE SHEPARD If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' te...
MORTIMER J. ADLER You may discover your purpose, but if you take it for granted, you will abuse yourself.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS Dont keep sweeping your troubles under the rug for someday you'll trip over it.
TAYLOR WAPAHA O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to g...
RUSSELL HOBAN Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your lif...
RENAE A. SAUTER Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, ...
LOBSANG TENZIN Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON It is foolish to lend your sword to anyone during the battle.
VIKRANT PARSAI Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?
RICHELLE MEAD set your goals in life because if u dont then it seems like a wild goose chase..
RAHUL.V.BHOLE if u know how to use your mind , you dont need a million bucks to make you feel like your in paradis...
ELVIS HODZIC Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that'...
R. STEVENS Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether...
WASSILY KANDINSKY It does not matter if u dont sleep often, what matters most is knowing how to use your time precisel...
BILAL ELKHATIB when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa...
DALLY SALAD Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much...
VERONICA LAPPAY If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor...
SEBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS Never borrow trouble, the payback's a bitch
JOSH STERN It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has mad...
SOPHOCLES If you are going to plan for your future, do not just include yourself; but also others. Without the...
YTHAM REIJAN ROSELITTLE COOGEIL Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I ha...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE True love is you. You cant love someone else if you dont love yourself.. Get to know yourself.
NERISSA IRVING You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.
MICHAEL PARENTI Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your stregth to that which you wish to be...
JEWEL To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance t...
WILLIAM DUNBAR Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.
ANTHONY LICCIONE If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.
JOHN GOULD We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me ...
JEFFREY KLUGER Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.'
Sid:'I dont know about you guy...
ICE AGE You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out y...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature...
ROBERT BURNS The people who can least afford it sign up for these loans. Adjust your withholding, talk to your la...
GAIL CUNNINGHAM My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my &#...
DEBBIE MACOMBER Your body is your body; it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it.
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Dont keep your heart safe.. be vulnerable
JOHN MAYER Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God d...
HAFIZ OF PERSIA You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON No one keeps your happiness for you if you are not able to preserve it yourself.
MARIANA FULGER If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wi...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You are a masterpiece. A painting. A poem. A song. A statue. A work of art.
Think of yourself ...
TONY EVENS Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
KIN HUBBARD If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.
SHANNON L. ALDER Do you know what i hate? I hate people who hides behind GOD, it doesn't matter how much u pray or fa...
CRYSTAL DEONARINE Rudyard Kipling coined the phrase: 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male.' Well - ...
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE If you invest your life into yourself, you are not pouring your life out somewhere, to some job or f...
SUNDAY ADELAJA We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD do tou think i would speak for you? i dont even know your language
JUDD NELSON Do not lose your independent mind, unconditioned mind. You have by nature a very powerful mind. You ...
LOBSANG TENZIN Act, think, do, according to your truth, according to who you are, and who you want to be. Congruenc...
AKIROQ BROST It’s a love of Piscean that you will never understand but it will hit your core not knowingly you ...
HAMEED QURESHI “No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then bec...
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And the Wolf that shall kee...
RUDYARD KIPLING Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met ...
RUDYARD KIPLING I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
RUDYARD KIPLING The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or any...
RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, an...
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch.
RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato,...
RUDYARD KIPLING Your new-caught, sullen peoples / Half devil and half child.
RUDYARD KIPLING An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded und...
RUDYARD KIPLING A-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot.
RUDYARD KIPLING 'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
RUDYARD KIPLING Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B...
RUDYARD KIPLING 'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
RUDYARD KIPLING There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.
RUDYARD KIPLING It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When ...
RUDYARD KIPLING If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son prais...
RUDYARD KIPLING The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
RUDYARD KIPLING Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
RUDYARD KIPLING What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?
RUDYARD KIPLING Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law.
RUDYARD KIPLING Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The ha...
RUDYARD KIPLING There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid.
RUDYARD KIPLING And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / B...
RUDYARD KIPLING The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one
RUDYARD KIPLING Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same.
RUDYARD KIPLING When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, And neither will go from the trail, Lie down till the leade...
RUDYARD KIPLING All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.
RUDYARD KIPLING What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
RUDYARD KIPLING I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)
RUDYARD KIPLING There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will tu...
RUDYARD KIPLING I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craf...
RUDYARD KIPLING Threatened men live long.
RUDYARD KIPLING Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.
RUDYARD KIPLING Cites and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye
Which daily die;
But, as new buds pu...
RUDYARD KIPLING It isn't what you say so much.
It's what you mean when you say it.
RUDYARD KIPLING I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and ...
RUDYARD KIPLING East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
RUDYARD KIPLING