If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor… — 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
“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
If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street.… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne. — 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
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they… — 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 Image
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
