Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it 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
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
