This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — 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
“Our time is short. I shouldn’t have believed that this morning; but now things are different. Binkie, where was Moses when the… — 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
“As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man- There are only four things certain since Social… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“The country isn’t half worked out because they that governs it won’t let you touch it. They spend all their blessed time… — 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
“Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure… — 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
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
