... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing; — 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
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. — 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
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can… — 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
Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Mowgli will drive Mowgli. Go back to thy people. Go to man. -Akela” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . . — 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
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
