Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie. - Rudyard Kipling
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man! - Rudyard Kipling
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. - Rudyard Kipling
Every woman knows all about everything. - Rudyard Kipling
It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare. - Rudyard Kipling
Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul. - Rudyard Kipling
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. - Rudyard Kipling
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again! - Rudyard Kipling
This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate. - Rudyard Kipling
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that`s your nature, but don`t lend it to your neighbors. - Rudyard Kipling
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. - Rudyard Kipling
Funny how the new things are the old things. - Rudyard Kipling
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood - Rudyard Kipling
What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker? - Rudyard Kipling
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. - Rudyard Kipling
A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 - Rudyard Kipling
We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.God help us, for we knew the worst too young!from "Gentleman Rankers - Rudyard Kipling
Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. - Rudyard Kipling
His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation. - Rudyard Kipling
They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind. - Rudyard Kipling
There's no jealousy in the grave. - Rudyard Kipling
There is no sin greater than ignorance. - Rudyard Kipling
One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin. - Rudyard Kipling
There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and woman to fill our day;But when we are certain of sorrow in store,Why do we always arrange for more?Brothers & Sisters, I bid you bewareOf giving your heart to a dog to tear. - Rudyard Kipling
To hear is one thing, to know is another. - Rudyard Kipling
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. - Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. - Rudyard Kipling
There's nothing so contagious in a boat as rivets going. - Rudyard Kipling
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble - Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. - Rudyard Kipling
At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done. - Rudyard Kipling
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling