“If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.”

— Rudyard Kipling, Epitaphs of the War, Common Form (1918)

About Rudyard Kipling

1865 – 1936

English writer and poet, Nobel laureate in Literature (1907), known for 'The Jungle Book' and the poem 'If—'.

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.”

“Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.”

“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”