because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be…

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

— Rudyard Kipling

“I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

Believe the best of everybody.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

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

“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

“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

“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“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

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