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
They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes. — 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
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
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the… — 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
This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about. — 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. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I… — 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
