No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it--… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The heart of a man to the heart of a maid- Light of my tents, be fleet- Morning awaits at the end… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our… — 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
