When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it--… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things.… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock brothers Resting… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste;… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
“One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and even more,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
“Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes all the credit of his best… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
“Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share
