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Will all be safe in your strong woman’s hands.Įlizabeth Ogden Smith. Īh, then, Dear Girls, the problems of the future Or, failing this, invoke but moderate aid. If you can wear your skin without cosmetics If you can leave your ears as Nature made them,ĭevoid of dangling stones or twinkling jet If you can keep your hair when all about you These were the first six lines and the final two lines of the playful send-up: 1922 June 8, Journal of Education, Volumes 95, Number 23, IF (With apologies to Kipling), Quote, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1922 the “Journal of Education” printed a parody. Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,Īnd - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son! The final two lines provided a resolution to all the conditional “if” statements: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,īut make allowance for their doubting too: If you can keep your head when all about you

These were the first six lines: 1910, Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling, Chapter: Brother Square Toes, Poem: If, Quote and 182, Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York. Rudyard Kipling published the poem “If -” in the collection “Rewards and Fairies” in 1910. Here are additional selected citations in chronological order. In both cases, the creator of the expression was anonymous. If you can keep your head when everybody around you is losing his, then it is very probable that you don’t understand the situation. The word “and” was omitted, and the word “around” replaced “round”: 1936 December 17, The Lake Park News, The Little Sioux Warrior, Quote, Column 2, Lake Park, Iowa. The second match in December 1936 occurred in the high school news section of a Lake Park, Iowa newspaper. (Old Fulton)Īnd if you can keep your head when everybody round you is losing his, then it is very probable that you don’t understand the situation. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1935 September 20, The Rhinebeck Gazette, High School Bulletin: Published by Rhinebeck High School: Section: Jokes, Quote, Column 4, Rhinebeck, New York. Quote Investigator: The earliest match located by QI appeared in the “High School Bulletin” section of a newspaper published in Rhinebeck, New York in September 1935. Would you please examine this humorous response?

A comical twist suggests that the unflappable person probably does not really understand what is happening. The first lines extol the ability to remain levelheaded in situations where others are panicking. Rudyard Kipling? Elizabeth Ogden Smith? Bob Rigley? Jean Kerr? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: The popular poem “If -” by the prominent literary figure Rudyard Kipling has often been parodied.