Rudyard Kipling

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

— Rudyard Kipling

“I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

— Rudyard Kipling

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…

— Rudyard Kipling

Believe the best of everybody.

— Rudyard Kipling

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,…

— Rudyard Kipling

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

— Rudyard Kipling

Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of…

— Rudyard Kipling

No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous…

— Rudyard Kipling

“One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and…

— Rudyard Kipling

“Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes all the credit of…

— Rudyard Kipling

“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other…

— Rudyard Kipling

If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried…

— Rudyard Kipling

We be of one blood, ye and I

— Rudyard Kipling

“Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

— Rudyard Kipling

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to…

— Rudyard Kipling

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

— Rudyard Kipling

“He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammeh, on her old platform, opposite the old Ajaib gher, the Wonder…

— Rudyard Kipling

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

— Rudyard Kipling

“THEY shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never…

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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

— Rudyard Kipling

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

— Rudyard Kipling