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Huh! It is only a pahari," said Kim over his shoulder. "Since when have the hill-asses owned all Hindustan?"The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations. By Rudyard Kipling Huh Kim Hindustan Pahari Shoulder

Cross that rules the Southern Sky!Stars that sweep, and turn, and flyHear the Lovers' Litany: -'Love like ours can never die! By Rudyard Kipling Sky Stars Litany Love Southern

Mad! Quite mad!' said Stalky to the visitors, as one exhibiting strange beasts. 'Beetle reads an ass called Brownin', and M'Turk reads an ass called Ruskin; and-' 'Ruskin isn't an ass,' said M'Turk. 'He's almost as good as the Opium-Eater. He says we're "children of noble races, trained by surrounding art." That means me, and the way I decorated the study when you two badgers would have stuck up brackets and Christmas cards. Child of a noble race, trained by surrounding art, stop reading or I'll shove a pilchard down your neck! By Rudyard Kipling Mad Ass Ruskin Trained Art

There was a young man of QuebecWho was frozen in snow to his neck,When asked, 'Are you Friz?'He replied, 'Yes I is,But we don't call this cold in Quebec.' By Rudyard Kipling Friz Quebec Asked Replied Young

Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free - The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call! - Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! By Rudyard Kipling Rann Kite Mang Bat Free

He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies ... but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself. By Rudyard Kipling Babies Kill Mice Kind Cat

Augrh!" said Father Wolf. "It is time to hunt again." He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: "Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world." It was the jackal - Tabaqui, the Dish-licker - and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps. But they are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way. Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake By Rudyard Kipling Wolf Father Tabaqui Augrh Good

It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. "Augrh!" said Father Wolf. "It is time to hunt again." He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: "Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world. By Rudyard Kipling Wolf Seeonee Father Yawned Rest

was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. "Augrh!" said Father Wolf. "It is time to hunt again." He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: "Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world." It was the jackal - Tabaqui, the Dish-licker - and the wolves of India By Rudyard Kipling Wolf Seeonee Father Yawned Rest

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. By Rudyard Kipling Emperors Quotations Wrapped Beggar Enfold

A liar only lies when he hopes to be believed. By Rudyard Kipling Believed Liar Lies Hopes

Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. By Rudyard Kipling Love Lie Buy Pup Money

Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes all the credit of his best as a rule. Bad work does not matter, because other men do worse, and incompetents hang on longer in India than anywhere else. Amusements do not matter, because you must repeat them as soon as you have accomplished them once, and most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money. Sickness does not matter, because it's all in the day's work, and if you die another man takes over your place and your office in the eight hours between death and burial. By Rudyard Kipling Matter Work Man Good Rule

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 By Rudyard Kipling Dead Statesmani Epitaphs War Dig

This was to me a far more terrible loss than the two that I had suffered before. For though, Lord help me, I had travelled far enough from all paths of decent or godly living, yet there was in me, though I myself write it, a certain goodness of heart which, when I was sober (or sick) made me very sorry of all that I had done before the fit came on me. And this I lost wholly: having in place thereof another deadly coldness at the heart. I am not, as I have before said, ready with my pen, so I fear that what I have just written may not be readily understood. By Rudyard Kipling Terrible Loss Suffered Heart Lord

THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD" "Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave," - W.E. Henley. His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow, and he lived in the north of London, coming into the City every day to work in a bank. He was twenty years old and suffered from aspirations. I met him in a public billiard-saloon where the marker called him by his given name, and he called the marker "Bullseyes." Charlie explained, a little nervously, that he had only come to the place to look on, and since looking on at games of skill is not a cheap amusement for the young, I suggested that Charlie should go back to his mother. By Rudyard Kipling World Finest Story Babylon Christian

Man!" he snapped. "A man's cub. Look!" Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk - as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed. "Is that a man's cub?" said Mother Wolf. "I have never seen one. Bring it here." A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if necessary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs. "How little! How naked, By Rudyard Kipling Wolf Man Snapped Father Cub

IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth - so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small 'Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale's right ear, so as to be out of harm's way. Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, 'I'm hungry.' And the small 'Stute Fish said in a small 'stute voice, 'Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man? By Rudyard Kipling Beloved Whale Ate Stute Fish

TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,For they were young, and the Thames was oldAnd this is the tale that River told: By Rudyard Kipling Twenty River Bridges Kew Wanted

Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake. Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death. So he backed out of the cave mouth growling... By Rudyard Kipling Wolf Mother Father Amazed Looked

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 By Rudyard Kipling Wits Losing Blaming Kipling Man

As he stood in the red light of the oil-lamp, strong, tall, and beautiful, his long black hair sweeping over his shoulders, the knife swinging at his neck, and his head crowned with a wreath of white jasmine, he might easily have been mistaken for some wild god of a jungle legend. -"Son," she said at last, - her eyes were full of pride, - "have any told thee that thou art beautiful beyond all men?""Hah?" said Mowgli, for naturally he had never heard anything of the kind. By Rudyard Kipling Strong Tall Oillamp Shoulders Neck

An increasing cackle of complaints, orders, and jests, and what to a European would have been bad language, came from behind the curtains. Here was evidently a woman used to command. By Rudyard Kipling Orders European Complaints Jests Language

If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't! By Rudyard Kipling England Brass Dreams Putty Paint

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War. By Rudyard Kipling War Women Things Greater Horses

Open the old cigar-box ... let me consider anew ... Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you? A million surplus Maggies are willing 'o bear the yoke; And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke. Light me another Cuba ... I hold to my first-sworn vows, If Maggie will have no rival, I'll have no Maggie for spouse! By Rudyard Kipling Maggie Open Cigarbox Woman Smoke

What is this," said the leopard,"that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light? By Rudyard Kipling Leopard Sclusively Dark Light Full

And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden. By Rudyard Kipling Garden Glory Harden Back Stops

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. By Rudyard Kipling Brothers Sisters Sorrow Day Tear

I Keep Six Honest Serving Men ..." 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.I send them over land and sea, I send them east and west;But after they have worked for me, I give them all a rest.I let them rest from nine till five, For I am busy then,As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, For they are hungry men.But different folk have different views; I know a person small - She keeps ten million serving-men,Who get no rest at all!She sends'em abroad on her own affairs, From the second she opens her eyes - One million Hows, two million Wheres,And seven million Whys! By Rudyard Kipling Men Serving Honest Million Send

Akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at Mowgli as the boy stood all naked, his long black hair tossing over his shoulders in the light of the blazing branch that made the shadows jump and quiver. By Rudyard Kipling Akela Mowgli Life Gave Naked

For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done. By Rudyard Kipling State Conclusions Largely Inarticulate Undemocratic

Ts! Ts!" said Kaa, shaking his head to and fro. "I also have known what love is. There are tales I could tell that - ""That need a clear night when we are all well fed to praise properly," said Bagheera, quickly. By Rudyard Kipling Kaa Quickly Bagheera Shaking Fro

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, By Rudyard Kipling Man Things Reason Beasts Give

Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him. By Rudyard Kipling Man Things Weakest Defenseless Living

Bagheera to see if the Panther was angry too, and Bagheera's eyes were as hard as jade stones. "Thou hast been with the Monkey Peoplethe gray apesthe people without a lawthe eaters of everything. That is great shame." "When Baloo hurt my head," said Mowgli (he was still on his back), "I went away, and the gray By Rudyard Kipling Bagheera Panther Stones Thou Angry

All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend. By Rudyard Kipling Points Priests Personally Hanuman Gods

Hunting Verse - Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all By Rudyard Kipling Verse Feet Hunting Noise Eyes

I wish to eat," said Mowgli. "I am a stranger in this part of the jungle. Bring me food, or give me leave to hunt here. By Rudyard Kipling Mowgli Eat Jungle Bring Food

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen. By Rudyard Kipling Listen Jungle Speaks

None of the Jungle People like being disturbed. By Rudyard Kipling Jungle People Disturbed

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one. By Rudyard Kipling Fun Ave Found Pay Settle

I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains -I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane;I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs.I will go out until the day, until the morning break -Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress;I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless! By Rudyard Kipling Remember Chains Cane Kind Day

Something I owe to the soil that grewMore to the life that fedBut most to Allah who gave me twoSeparate sides to my head. By Rudyard Kipling Allah Head Owe Soil Grewmore

Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order - never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request. Mrs. Cheyne lived in fear of breaking his spirit, which, perhaps, was the reason that she herself walked on the edge of nervous prostration. By Rudyard Kipling Harvey People Order Long Tearful

There are gems of wondrous brightnessOfttimes lying at our feet,And we pass them, walking thoughtless,Down the busy, crowded street.If we knew, our pace would slacken,We would step more oft with care,Lest our careless feet be treadingTo the earth some jewel rare. By Rudyard Kipling Walking Busy Crowded Knew Rare

They believed us and perished for it. Our statecraft, our learningDelivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burningWhither they mirthfully hastened as jostling for honour -Not since her birth has our Earth seen such worth loosed upon her.Nor was their agony brief, or once only imposed on them.The wounded, the war-spent, the sick received no exemption:Being cured they returned and endured and achieved our redemption,Hopeless themselves of relief, till Death, marvelling, closed on them.That flesh we had nursed from the first in all cleanness was givenTo corruption unveiled and assailed by the malice of Heaven -By the heart-shaking jests of Decay where it lolled on the wires -To be blanched or gay-painted by fumes - to be cindered by fires -To be senselessly tossed and retossed in stale mutilationFrom crater to crater. For this we shall take expiation. But who shall return us the children? By Rudyard Kipling Believed Perished Crater Death Heaven

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain ... By Rudyard Kipling Egotize Narcotize Infect Paralyze Brain

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. By Rudyard Kipling Trees Night Wind Shadow Morning

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? By Rudyard Kipling Gaul Briton Perceive National Fairy

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son. By Rudyard Kipling Impostors Man Son Meet Success

If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same. By Rudyard Kipling Triumph Meet Disasterand Treat Impostors

Both triumph and disaster are impostors. By Rudyard Kipling Impostors Triumph Disaster

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it ... By Rudyard Kipling Wait Waiting Tired Make Disaster

The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood. By Rudyard Kipling Nag Noise Hood Big Man

Sing to your fledglings again, Mother, oh lift up your head! By Rudyard Kipling Mother Sing Head Fledglings Lift

HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild - as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him. By Rudyard Kipling Wild Hear Beloved Tame Listen

He will be our friend for always and always and always. By Rudyard Kipling Friend

He spread out his hood more than ever, and Rikki-tikki saw the spectacle-mark on the back of it that looks exactly like the eye part of a hook-and-eye fastening. He was afraid for the minute, but it is impossible for a mongoose to stay frightened for any length of time, and though Rikki-tikki had never met a live cobra before, his mother had fed him on dead ones, and he knew that all a grown mongoose's business in life was to fight and eat snakes. Nag knew that too and, at the bottom of his cold heart, he was afraid. By Rudyard Kipling Rikkitikki Fastening Spread Hood Spectaclemark

He spent all that day roaming By Rudyard Kipling Roaming Spent Day

When Earth's last picture is painted And the tubes are twisted and dried When the oldest colors have faded And the youngest critic has died We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it Lie down for an aeon or two 'Till the Master of all good workmen Shall put us to work anew And those that were good shall be happy They'll sit in a golden chair They'll splash at a ten league canvas With brushes of comet's hair They'll find real saints to draw from Magdalene, Peter, and Paul They'll work for an age at a sitting And never be tired at all. And only the Master shall praise us. And only the Master shall blame. And no one will work for the money. No one will work for the fame. But each for the joy of the working, And each, in his separate star, Will draw the thing as he sees it. For the God of things as they are! By Rudyard Kipling Master Peter Good Till Magdalene

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind. By Rudyard Kipling Copy Mind Sweatin Stealin Copied

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 By Rudyard Kipling Life Sin Manhood Times Young

No jury, we knew, could convict a man on the criminal count on native evidence in a land where you can buy a murder-charge, including the corpse, all complete for fifty-four rupees By Rudyard Kipling Jury Knew Murdercharge Including Corpse

Had I guns (as I had goods) to work my Christian harm. I had run him up from the quarter deck to trade with his own yard-arm; I had nailed his ears to my capstan-head, and ripped them off with a saw, And soused them in the bilgewater, and served them to him raw; I had flung him blind in a rudderless boat to rot in the rocking dark,I had towed him aft of his own craft, a bait for his brother shark; I had lapped him round with cocoa husk, and drenched him with the oil,And lashed him fast to his own mast to blaze above my spoil; I had stripped his hide for my hammock-side, and tasseled his beard in the mesh, And spitted his crew on the live bamboo that grows through the gangrened flesh. By Rudyard Kipling Christian Guns Goods Harm Work

There was a young man of Quebecbr>Who was frozen in snow to his neck,br>When asked, 'Are you Friz?'br>He replied, 'Yes I is,br>But we don't call this cold in Quebec.' By Rudyard Kipling Quebecbr Friz Quebec Neckbr Asked

I've never sailed the Amazon, I've never reached Brazil; But the Don and Magdalena, They can go there when they will!Yes, weekly from Southampton, Great steamers, white and gold, Go rolling down to Rio(Roll down - roll down to Rio!) And I'd like to roll to Rio Some day before I'm old!I've never seen a Jaguar, Nor yet an ArmadillO dilloing in his armour, And I s'pose I never will,Unless I go to RioThese wonders to beholdRoll down - roll down to RioRoll really down to Rio!Oh, I'd love to roll to Rio Some day before I'm old! By Rudyard Kipling Rio Roll Amazon Brazil Magdalena

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 By Rudyard Kipling Measure Honour Rankers Hope Love

The country isn't half worked out because they that governs it won't let you touch it. They spend all their blessed time in governing it, and you can't lift a spade, nor chip a rock, nor look for oil, nor anything like that without all the Government saying - 'Leave it alone and let us govern.' Therefore, such as it is, we will let it alone, and go away to some other place where a man isn't crowded and can come to his own. We are not little men, and there is nothing that we are afraid of except Drink, and we have signed a Contrack on that. Therefore, we are going away to be Kings. By Rudyard Kipling Country Half Worked Touch Leave

As he held he closed his jaws tighter and tighter, for he made sure he would be banged to death, and, for the honor of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked. By Rudyard Kipling Tighter Death Family Locked Held

[A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.]And I come here alone. For fiveseveneighteenforty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry ... 'So it comes with all faiths. By Rudyard Kipling Buddhist Curator Monk Pilgrimage Speaks

Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent. By Rudyard Kipling Lent Cent Loves Compound Interest

He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits. By Rudyard Kipling Mongoose Tail Habits Cat Fur

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards By Rudyard Kipling Acquaintance Hit Pony Nose Outset

How can a man follow the Way or the Great Game when he is eternally pestered by women? There was that girl at the Akrola by the Ford; and there was the scullion's wife behind the dovecote not counting the others and now comes this one! When I was a child it was well enough, but now I am a man and they will not regard me as a man. Walnuts indeed! Ho! Ho! It is almonds in the Plains! By Rudyard Kipling Great Game Man Women Follow

A churel is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in child-bed. She haunts lonely roads, her feet are turned backwards on the ankles, and she leads men to torment. By Rudyard Kipling Childbed Churel Peculiarly Malignant Ghost

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth By Rudyard Kipling Slang Provincialism American Language Dialect

Believe the best of everybody. By Rudyard Kipling

Sing to your fledglings again, By Rudyard Kipling Sing Fledglings

The masterless man ... afflicted with the magic of the necessary words ... Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers. By Rudyard Kipling Man Masterless Words Afflicted Magic

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know." By Rudyard Kipling Cambrian Forming Peace Measures Promised

The Navy is very old and very wise. By Rudyard Kipling Navy Wise

If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ... By Rudyard Kipling Fools Man Hear Truth Spoken

Monkey People? They By Rudyard Kipling People Monkey

O it's Tommy this, an'Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away": But it's "Thank you, Mister Adkins," when the band begins to play ... By Rudyard Kipling Mister Adkins Tommy Antommy Play

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit. By Rudyard Kipling Nations Traces Cases Fit Passed

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling By Rudyard Kipling God Prayer Times Soldier Adore

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate. By Rudyard Kipling Suspicious Religious People Deeply Purposes

Holden found one helpless little hand that closed feebly on his finger. And the clutch ran through his body till it settled about his heart. Till then his sole thought had been for Ameera. He began to realise that there was some one else in the world, ... By Rudyard Kipling Holden Finger Found Helpless Hand

The wild hawk to the wind-swept skyThe deer to the wholesome wold;And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,As it was in the days of old. By Rudyard Kipling Heart Wold Wild Hawk Windswept

I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim? His soul repeated it again and again. By Rudyard Kipling Kim Soul Repeated

He who rebukes the World is rebuked by the World By Rudyard Kipling World Rebukes Rebuked

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And hold on when there's nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: Hold on! By Rudyard Kipling Hold Force Heart Nerve Sinewto

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. By Rudyard Kipling Gardens Shade Made Sitting

The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar - Who follows in his train? I By Rudyard Kipling Son Man War Gain Afar

The heart of a man to the heart of a maid-Light of my tents, be fleet-Morning awaits at the end of the world,And the world is all at our feet. By Rudyard Kipling Heart Tents Feet Man Maidlight

It's clever, but is it art? By Rudyard Kipling Clever Art

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay! By Rudyard Kipling Mandalay Back British Soldier

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.' By Rudyard Kipling Nation Temptation Rich Lazy Puff

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night? By Rudyard Kipling Twilight Burning Night Smelled Woodsmoke

And the last puff of the day-wind brought from the unseen villages the scent of damp wood-smoke, hot cakes, dripping undergrowth, and rotting pine-cones. That is the true smell of the Himalayas, and if once it creeps into the blood of a man, that man will at the last, forgetting all else, return to the hills to die. By Rudyard Kipling Woodsmoke Hot Cakes Dripping Undergrowth

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who. By Rudyard Kipling Men Knew Honest Serving Taught

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work. By Rudyard Kipling Meddling Work Man Folly Thankless

Know too much, young un," said Billy, "and that is one By Rudyard Kipling Billy Young

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless. By Rudyard Kipling Night Turnstiles Colorless Man Creeds

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. By Rudyard Kipling Youth Habit Long Part

Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, By Rudyard Kipling Grave Knightly Years World

Only the keeper seesthat,where the ring-dove broodsand the badgers roll at ease,there was once a road through the woods By Rudyard Kipling Woods Keeper Seesthatwhere Ringdove Broodsand

Pleasant it is for the Little Tin GodsWhen great Jove nods;But Little Tin Gods make their little mistakesIn missing the hour when great Jove wakes. By Rudyard Kipling Tin Jove Great Gods Pleasant

Now whither does THIS trail lead?" Kaa's voice was gentler. "Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open. By Rudyard Kipling Lead Trail Kaa Gentler Manling

The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see. By Rudyard Kipling Mowgli Shoulders Python Dropped Head

The Irish move to the sound of the guns like salmon to the sea By Rudyard Kipling Irish Sea Move Sound Guns

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. By Rudyard Kipling Life Moments Adventures Brevity Offers

Funny how the new things are the old things. By Rudyard Kipling Funny Things

India is the one place in the world where a man can do as he pleases and nobody asks why; By Rudyard Kipling India Place World Man

One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. By Rudyard Kipling Day Mother Kicking Clucking Ditch

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted. By Rudyard Kipling Resisted Slow Judge

There is no harm in a man's cub. By Rudyard Kipling Cub Harm Man

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. By Rudyard Kipling Mine Mother Soul Dammed Body

For a wolf, no," said Tabaqui, "but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast. Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?" He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily. By Rudyard Kipling Tabaqui Wolf Feast Person Dry

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money. By Rudyard Kipling Money Amusements Win Person

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child. By Rudyard Kipling Halfdevil Newcaught Sullen Peoples Child

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him. By Rudyard Kipling Fool Man Waste Muddle Make

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed. By Rudyard Kipling Deeds Willed Man Judged Paid

Then Kotick roared to the seals: I've done my best for you these five seasons past. I've found you the island where you'll be safe, but unless your heads are dragged off your silly necks you won't believe. I'm going to teach you now. Look out for yourselves! By Rudyard Kipling Kotick Seals Past Roared Seasons

Boil 'em once or twice in hot water, and they'll come as fair as chicken and ham. By Rudyard Kipling Boil Water Ham Hot Fair

A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet. By Rudyard Kipling Feet Mowgli Baloo Bruised Fall

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul. By Rudyard Kipling Instructors Body Spirit Soul Surrendered

speak - a thing he would never have dared to do By Rudyard Kipling Speak Thing Dared

Who has delivered us, who? Tell me his nest and his name. Rikki, the valiant, the true, Tikki, with eyeballs of flame, Rikk-tikki-tikki, the ivory-fanged, the hunter with eyeballs of flame! By Rudyard Kipling Flame Delivered Tikki Eyeballs Rikki

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.' By Rudyard Kipling Servant Cat Friend Cave Walks

Your Gods and my Gods - do you or I know which are the stronger? - Native Proverb. By Rudyard Kipling Gods Stronger Native Proverb

They did not hang medals, in those days, on all who by accident had heard a gun fired. By Rudyard Kipling Medals Days Fired Hang Accident

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down. By Rudyard Kipling Black Bagheera Panther Circle Shadow

The sky above them was an intense velvety black, changing to bands of Indian red on the horizon, where the great stars burned like street-lamps. From time to time a greenish wave of the Northern Lights would roll across the hollow of the high heavens, flick like a flag, and disappear; or a meteor would crackle from darkness to darkness, trailing a shower of sparks behind. Then they could see the ridged and furrowed surface of the floe tipped and laced with strange colours - red, copper, and bluish; but in the ordinary starlight everything turned to one frost-bitten gray. By Rudyard Kipling Indian Black Changing Horizon Streetlamps

His nickname through all the wards was ' Little Friend of all the World'; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion. It was intrigue, of course. By Rudyard Kipling World Friend Inconspicuous Fashion Nickname

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race ... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled. By Rudyard Kipling Race Humbled Pass Incarnations Age

Mark my trail... By Rudyard Kipling Mark Trail

Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house. By Rudyard Kipling Cave Man Wild Nice Woman

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown. By Rudyard Kipling English Flown Isle Sea Lonebut

It seems - and who so astonished as they? - that they had held back material facts; that they were guilty of both suppressio veri and suggestio falsi (well-known gods against whom they often offended); further, that they were malignant in their dispositions, untrustworthy in their characters, pernicious and revolutionary in their influences, abandoned to the devils of wilfulness, pride, and a most intolerable conceit. Ninthly, and lastly, they were to have a care and to be very careful. By Rudyard Kipling Astonished Pride Facts Falsi Wellknown

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing; By Rudyard Kipling Gentleman Thing Officer Enviable

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not madeBy singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade,While better men than we go out, and start their working livesBy grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives. By Rudyard Kipling England Singing Wonderful Knives Garden

The beasts are very wise,Their mouths are clean of lies,They talk one to the other,Bullock to bullock brothersResting after their labors,Each in stall with his neighbors,But man with goad and whip,Breaks up their fellowship,Shouts in their silky earsFilling their soul with fears.When he has plowed the land,He says: "they understand."But the beasts in stall together,Freed from the yoke and tether,Say as the torn flank smoke:"Nay, 'twas the whip that spoke." By Rudyard Kipling Nay Beasts Stall Understand Smoke

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt. By Rudyard Kipling Salt Kissed Man Wax Moustache

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. By Rudyard Kipling Small Miseries Debts Hit Places

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man-There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:-That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins"From "The Gods of the Copybook Headings By Rudyard Kipling Returns Fire Headings Social Progress

I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan. By Rudyard Kipling Jungle Bagheera Panther Khan Shere

He has oppressed Beetle, M'Turk, and me, privatim et seriatim, one by one, as he could catch us. But now he has insulted Number Five up in the music-room, and in the presence of these - these ossifers of the Ninety-third, wot look like hairdressers. Binjimin, we must make him cry "Capivi!"'Stalky's reading did not include Browning or Ruskin. By Rudyard Kipling Beetle Mturk Privatim Seriatim Oppressed

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilised Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. By Rudyard Kipling Christianity Eastern Instincts Sight Great

Then the Kolokolo Bird said with a mournful cry, Go to the banks of the great, grey-green greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out. By Rudyard Kipling River Kolokolo Bird Limpopo Cry

He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammeh, on her old platform, opposite the old Ajaib gher, the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon', hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot. By Rudyard Kipling House Museum Ajaib Lahore Orders

If you cross examine a child of seven or eight on his day's doings (specially when he wants to go to sleep), he will contradict himself very satisfactorily. If each contradiction be set down as a lie and retailed at breakfast, life is not easy. I have known a certain amount of bullying, but this was calculated torture - religious as well as scientific. By Rudyard Kipling Specially Sleep Satisfactorily Cross Examine

Stalky,' in their school vocabulary, meant clever, well-considered and wily, as applied to plans of action; and 'stalkiness' was the one virtue Corkran toiled after. By Rudyard Kipling Stalky Corkran Vocabulary Meant Clever

I've never done any cattle-liftin', but it seems to me-e-e that one might just as well be stalky about a thing as not. By Rudyard Kipling Cattleliftin Stalky Thing

Well-meanin' man. Did it all for the best." Stalky curled gracefully round the stair-rail. "Head in a drain-pipe. Full confession in the left boot. By Rudyard Kipling Wellmeanin Man Head Stalky Stairrail

Leave him alone, he's as mad as a hatter! By Rudyard Kipling Leave Hatter Mad

I am more likely to give help than to ask it" - Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it - "still I should like to know. By Rudyard Kipling Bagheera Steelblue Rippingchisel Give Stretched

Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man! By Rudyard Kipling Material Man Load Shock Bear

The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen. By Rudyard Kipling Coppersmith Indian Pot Garden Listen

Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid --Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.""Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall,"But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all. By Rudyard Kipling Iron Good Copper Baron Cold

Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. The By Rudyard Kipling Wolf Akela Lone Pack Cunning

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream. By Rudyard Kipling Dream Follow

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart. By Rudyard Kipling Depart Tied Heart Softly River

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise. By Rudyard Kipling Waiting Lies Wait Tired Lied

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don't count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages By Rudyard Kipling City Chicago Struck Real Call

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers. By Rudyard Kipling Englishmen Mothers Softened Appeals Memory

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth. By Rudyard Kipling People Terror Birth Gave

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs. By Rudyard Kipling Heart Ravening Fortyfathom Slumber Soul

I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows all and more of the mystery of man's fall, and that it feels all the contempt that the Devil felt when Adam was evicted from Eden. Besides which its bite is generally fatal, and it twists up trouser legs.("The Return Of Imray") By Rudyard Kipling Eden Devil Adam Fall Hate

A Ripple SongOnce a ripple came to landIn the sunset burning-Lapped against a maiden's hand, By the ford returning.Dainty foot and gentle breast-Here, across, be glad and rest."Maiden, wait," the ripple saith"Wait awhile, for I am Death!"'Where my lover calls I go-Shame it were to treat him coldly-'Twas a fish that circled so,Turning over boldly.'Dainty foot and tender heart,Wait the loaded ferry-cart."Wait, ah, wait!" the ripple saith;"Maiden, wait, for I am Death!"'When my lover calls I haste-Dame Disdain was never wedded!'Ripple-ripple round her waist,Clear the current eddied.Foolish heart and faithful hand,Little feet that touched no land.Far away the ripple sped,Ripple-ripple-running red! By Rudyard Kipling Wait Ripple Death Maiden Saith

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves. By Rudyard Kipling Word Printed Spoken Plea Teach

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance. By Rudyard Kipling Love Learn Forgive Man Nuisance

Like Princes crowned they bore themLike Demi-Gods they wrought,When the New World lay before themIn headlong fact and thought. Fate and their foemen proved themAbove all meed of praise,And Gloriana loved them,And Shakespeare wrote them plays! ... Now Valour, Youth, and Life's delight break forthIn flames of wondrous deed, and thought sublimeLightly to mould new worlds or lightly looseWords that shall shake and shape all after-time!Giants with giants, wits with wits engage,And England-England-England takes the breathOf morning, body and soul, till the great AgeFulfills in one great chord:Elizabeth! By Rudyard Kipling Princes Crowned Bore Themlike Demigods

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen. By Rudyard Kipling Amen Angels Pen Woman Forever

Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall. By Rudyard Kipling Promise Make Armageddon Blood House

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade. By Rudyard Kipling Gardens Singing Beautiful Shade Made

Among the young ravens driven to roost awhile on Graydon's ark was James Andrew Manallace - a darkish, slow northerner of a type that does not ignite, but must be detonated. ("Dayspring Mishandled") By Rudyard Kipling Manallace Graydon James Andrew Darkish

Tiger! Tiger! What of the hunting, hunter bold? Brother, the watch was long and cold. What of the quarry ye went to kill? Brother, he crops in the jungle still. Where is the power that made your pride? Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side. Where is the haste that ye hurry by? Brother, I go to my lair - to die. By Rudyard Kipling Brother Tiger Hunting Hunter Bold

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew. By Rudyard Kipling Till Anew Master Good Workmen

Every woman knows all about everything. By Rudyard Kipling Woman

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin. By Rudyard Kipling Born Morn Tin Rise Timeless

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. By Rudyard Kipling Afghanistan Plains Remains Jest Soldier

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn. By Rudyard Kipling Oak Thorn England Sun Ash

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way. By Rudyard Kipling Spiritual Men Link Tie Crisis

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. By Rudyard Kipling Head Losing Blaming

You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it. By Rudyard Kipling Aldershot Ere Gin Water Bloomin

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity. By Rudyard Kipling Humanity Words Nature Dealer Powerful

One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and even more, worth suppressing. By Rudyard Kipling Strickland Days Experiences Book Write

For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot. By Rudyard Kipling Guns Savior Chuck Brutes Loot

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art? By Rudyard Kipling Learned Eden Tree Peg Egg

And if you expect you'll gain anything from us by your way of approachin' us, you're jolly well mistaken. That's all. Good-night.'They clattered upstairs, injured virtue on every inch of their backs.'But - but what the dickens have we done?' said Harrison, amazedly, to Craye.'I don't know. Only - it always happens that way when one has anything to do with them. They're so beastly plausible. By Rudyard Kipling Approachin Mistaken Expect Gain Jolly

One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seeking him half your daysIf you find him before the other.The Thousandth Man By Rudyard Kipling Solomon Man Thousandth Thousand Sayswill

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers. By Rudyard Kipling Dead Read Subscribers Forget Delete

They talk o' rich folks bein' stuck up and genteel, but for iron-clad pride o' respectability there's nowt like poor chapel folk. Why, 'tis as cold as the wind on Greenhow Hill aye, and colder, too, for 'twill never change. By Rudyard Kipling Rich Bein Stuck Genteel Respectability

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. By Rudyard Kipling Books Person Prescribe People Good

Something is coming uphill," said Mother Wolf, twitching one ear. "Get ready." The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap. Then, if you had been watching, you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world - the wolf checked in mid-spring. He made his bound before he saw what it was he was jumping at, and then he tried to stop himself. The result was that he shot up straight into the air for four or five feet, landing almost By Rudyard Kipling Mother Wolf Uphill Twitching Ear

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. By Rudyard Kipling Kim World Great India Identity

The others down by the melon bed. Nagaina spun clear round, By Rudyard Kipling Bed Melon Nagaina Round Spun

One man in a thousand will stick closer than a brother, but the thousandth man will stand by your side, to the gallows foot and after. By Rudyard Kipling Brother Side Man Thousand Stick

The White Seal Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between. Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow, Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease! The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas! Seal Lullaby By Rudyard Kipling White Thee Seal Billow Thy

It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?'Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers. By Rudyard Kipling Fancy Llama Good Men Dreamers

One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward. By Rudyard Kipling Jungle Law Scores Beauties Punishment

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England. By Rudyard Kipling England City Cold Thin Grey

Where are the fish, though?""In the sea they say, in the boats we pray," said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb. By Rudyard Kipling Dan Fish Pray Quoting Proverb

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.' By Rudyard Kipling Paul Carboniferous Epoch Peter Gods

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! By Rudyard Kipling Surely Water Fire Gods Copybook

The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan. By Rudyard Kipling Thunder Tiger Roar Filled Cave

Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it. By Rudyard Kipling Savings Man Represent Mere Money

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it ... By Rudyard Kipling Earth Run Fill Unforgiving Minute

Lie still, little frog. O though Mowglifor Mowgli the Frog I will call theethe time will come when thought wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee. By Rudyard Kipling Lie Frog Mowglifor Mowgli Shere

Let them fall Mowgli, they are only tears. By Rudyard Kipling Mowgli Tears Fall

So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married.But that is a story for grown-ups. By Rudyard Kipling Mowgli Hunted Cubs Jungle Day

These be the sort" - she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her mouth with paan - "These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe, suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse than the pestilence. They do harm to kings. By Rudyard Kipling Sort Tone Paan Justice Fine

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 and all its sadlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him. By Rudyard Kipling Weapons Accuses Gunner Maudlin Affection

Ah!" said the troop horse. "That explains it. I can trust Dick." "You could put a whole regiment of Dicks on my back without making me feel any better. I By Rudyard Kipling Horse Troop Dick Dicks Explains

Our hearts where they rocked our cradle,Our love where we spent our toil,And our faith, and our hope, and our honor,We pledge to our native soil.God gave all men all earth to love,But since our hearts are small,Ordained for each one spot should proveBeloved over all. By Rudyard Kipling Hearts Faith Hope Rocked Cradleour

Ye've a furtive look in your eye - a furtive, sneakin', poachin' look in your eye, that 'ud ruin the reputation of an archangel! By Rudyard Kipling Eye Sneakin Poachin Furtive Archangel

I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time, and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going mad. By Rudyard Kipling Thing Twilight Infernal Blocking Path

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky. By Rudyard Kipling Sky Thrilled Felt Keel Answer

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. By Rudyard Kipling Eternity Gentlemanrankers Spree Damned

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah! By Rudyard Kipling Baa Poor Lambs Lost Damned

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! By Rudyard Kipling Man Kill Mates Killing Cubs

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool. By Rudyard Kipling Money World Man Country Spends

color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle By Rudyard Kipling Color Handle Badgercolored Veterans

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye. By Rudyard Kipling Eye Glory Garden Lies Meets

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right. By Rudyard Kipling Lays Constructing Tribal Single

Each dog barks in its own yard. By Rudyard Kipling Yard Dog Barks

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. By Rudyard Kipling Clergy Ounce Mother Worth Pound

If you've 'eard the East a-callin', why you won't 'eed nothin' else.No! you won't 'eed nothin' else, but them spicy garlic smells, an' the sunshine an' the palm trees, an' the tinkly temple-bells. By Rudyard Kipling Eed Nothin East Elseno Eard

Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man. By Rudyard Kipling Holden World Man Bungalow Began

And with an almost audible click he felt the wheels of his being lock up anew on the world without. Things that rode meaningless on the eyeball an instant before slid into proper proportion. Roads were meant to be walked upon, houses to be lived in, cattle to be driven, fields to be tilled, and men and women to be talked to. They were all real and true - solidly By Rudyard Kipling Audible Click Felt Wheels Lock

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper. By Rudyard Kipling Jungle Life Temper Food Depend

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart. By Rudyard Kipling Sacrifice Heart Stands Thine Ancient

All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization. By Rudyard Kipling Civilization India Shiny Topscum Call

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins. By Rudyard Kipling Accomplished Begins Sins Brave World

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door. By Rudyard Kipling Hammers Bangs Half Head Jaw

Tabaqui the Jackal must have bitten all these people, he said to himself, By Rudyard Kipling Jackal Tabaqui People Bitten

To things greater than all things are, The first is Love, and the second War. And since we know not how War may prove, Heart of my heart, let us talk of Love! By Rudyard Kipling Love War Things Heart Greater

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded,intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman inher blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man sheadores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, orinterlard her speech with his pet oaths. By Rudyard Kipling Hotheadedintemperate Guileless Open Junior Things

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours. By Rudyard Kipling Future Wariness Observation Tempers Action

And when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone. By Rudyard Kipling Wet Wild Cat Moon Night

The toad beneath the harrow knowsWhere every separate tooth-point goes ;The butterfly upon the roadPreaches contentment to that toad. By Rudyard Kipling Toad Beneath Harrow Knowswhere Separate

Take up the White Man's burden send forth the best ye breed go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. By Rudyard Kipling White Man Bind Burden Send

Shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in By Rudyard Kipling Wolves Chief Good Shadow Whined

When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next. By Rudyard Kipling Stroke Snake Misses Sign

Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls. By Rudyard Kipling Rikkitikki Proud Bite Till Walls

The world is very lovely, and it's very horribleand it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else. By Rudyard Kipling Lovely World Horribleand Care Life

Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street. By Rudyard Kipling Tis Beauty Speak Necessarily Good

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not. By Rudyard Kipling Considered World Things Kinds Men

Each dog barks in his own yard! By Rudyard Kipling Yard Dog Barks

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, no matter how trifling the cost. For the end of that game is oppression and shame and the nation that plays it is lost! By Rudyard Kipling Danegeld Cost Pay Matter Trifling

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew. By Rudyard Kipling Crew Angry Skipper Makes Unhappy

No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons. By Rudyard Kipling York Extravagance Spirit Approached Management

(Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi) By Rudyard Kipling Sung Honor

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"At the hole where he went inRed-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin.Hear what little Red-Eye saith:"Nag, come up and dance with death!"Eye to eye and head to head,(Keep the measure, Nag.)This shall end when one is dead;(At thy pleasure, Nag.)Turn for turn and twist for twist(Run and hide thee, Nag.)Hah! The hooded Death has missed!(Woe betide thee, Nag!) By Rudyard Kipling Nag Nag Hah Eye Turn

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. By Rudyard Kipling World Fears Liars Worst

On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay! By Rudyard Kipling China Mandalay Bay Play Outer

Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and froAnd what should they know of England who only England know?The English Flag, Stanza 1 (1891) By Rudyard Kipling World Stanza Winds Give Answer

Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother. By Rudyard Kipling Jungle Thou Art Brother Panther

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation. By Rudyard Kipling Wardour Street Adventure Told Met

And Kotick curled up his mustache (it was a beauty) and said, I am the only white seal that has ever been born on the beaches, and I am the only seal, black or white, who ever thought of looking for new islands. By Rudyard Kipling Kotick White Seal Mustache Beauty

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. By Rudyard Kipling Fiction Sister Truth Elder Story

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. By Rudyard Kipling Joan Arc Climate Threshing Housekeeping

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are. By Rudyard Kipling Beware Money Position Glory Overconcern

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man. By Rudyard Kipling Man Worked Horse Ate Hog

They will come back, come back again,As long as the red earth rolls.He never wasted a leaf or a tree.Do you think he would squander souls? By Rudyard Kipling Back Souls Againas Long Red

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget. By Rudyard Kipling Dies Depart Forget Tumalt Shouting

I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp, said the lama, smiling slowly. By Rudyard Kipling Spirit Imp Lama Smiling Slowly

One cannot resist the lure of Africa. By Rudyard Kipling Africa Resist Lure

Chuchundra is a broken-hearted little beast. He whimpers and cheeps all the night, trying to make up his mind to run into the middle of the room. But he never gets there. By Rudyard Kipling Chuchundra Beast Brokenhearted Night Room

When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue.The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke. By Rudyard Kipling Pay Sunstroke Man Good Work

What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker? By Rudyard Kipling Widowmaker Woman Forsake Herand Hearth

I have heard now and again of such a thing, but never in our Pack or in my time," said Father Wolf. "He is altogether without hair, and I could kill him with a touch of my foot. But see, he looks up and is not afraid. By Rudyard Kipling Wolf Pack Father Thing Time

'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An'e's generally shammin' when'e's dead. By Rudyard Kipling Dead Ginger Alive Generally Shammin

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 your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away! By Rudyard Kipling Adam Garden God Glory Work

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! By Rudyard Kipling Eathen Began Blindness End Army

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? By Rudyard Kipling Lord Good Public Account Fathomless

When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was. By Rudyard Kipling Hate Suspicion Despair Knowledge Young

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the midday sun always excepted. By Rudyard Kipling India Excepted Place Things Midday

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink By Rudyard Kipling Drink Work Energy Kill Man

My heart is so tired By Rudyard Kipling Tired Heart

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore. By Rudyard Kipling Gale Core Ashore Crew Captain

Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk - as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed. By Rudyard Kipling Wolf Directly Holding Branch Stood

Do not weep; for, look you, all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the. wheel. By Rudyard Kipling Desire Illusion Wheel Weep Binding

For Kim did nothing with an immense success. By Rudyard Kipling Kim Success Immense

Kim dived into the happy Asiatic disorder which, if you only allow time, will bring you everything that a simple man needs. By Rudyard Kipling Asiatic Kim Time Dived Happy

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way. The Lama in Kim By Rudyard Kipling Robes Wear Walk Kim Lama

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this. By Rudyard Kipling Ignorance Sin Great Remember

I explained as much as I knew of the seal-cutter's way of jadoo; but her argument was much more simple: "The magic that is always demanding gifts is no true magic," said she. By Rudyard Kipling Jadoo Simple Magic Explained Knew

When he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight. Indeed, we are very grateful to Shere Khan!" "Shall I tell him of your gratitude?" said Tabaqui. "Out!" snapped Father Wolf. "Out and hunt with thy master. Thou hast done harm enough for one night." "I go," said Tabaqui quietly. "Ye can hear Shere Khan below in the thickets. I might have saved myself the message." Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little By Rudyard Kipling Alight Shere Khan Tabaqui Wolf

Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack. By Rudyard Kipling Smells Crack Surer Sounds Sights

Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey - rose upon his hind quarters and grunted. By Rudyard Kipling Baloo Council Jungle Pack Law

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards. By Rudyard Kipling Life Made Mistake Explain

No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end. By Rudyard Kipling Fall Listen End World

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all. By Rudyard Kipling God Love Small Ordains Belov

He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart. By Rudyard Kipling Reach Heart Child Worlds

There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest. By Rudyard Kipling Listed Legion Crest Split Detachments

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin. By Rudyard Kipling Skin Paid Knowledge

The camel's hump is an ugly lump,Which well you might see at the zoo.But uglier yet is the hump we get,For having to little to do. By Rudyard Kipling Hump Camel Ugly Lumpwhich Zoobut

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied. By Rudyard Kipling Lied Question Died Father

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. By Rudyard Kipling Certainty Woman Guess Accurate Man

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done. By Rudyard Kipling Substance Living Wasted Riotous Record

I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper! By Rudyard Kipling Sapper Engineers Corps Majesty Plain

Cities and Thrones and PowersStand in Time's eye,Almost as long as flowers,Which daily die By Rudyard Kipling Thrones Time Cities Die Powersstand

Politics are not my concern ... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies. By Rudyard Kipling Politics Concern Dog Decencies Impressed

And the first rude sketch that the world has seenwas joy to his mighty heart,Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, It's pretty, but is it art? By Rudyard Kipling Devil Leaves Pretty Art Rude

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. By Rudyard Kipling Tower Man Mind Wont Watchmen

Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer. By Rudyard Kipling Wearer Man Opinion Woman Dress

Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most bitter agonies-the people who would limit and cripple and hamper research because they fear research may be accompanied by a little pain and suffering. By Rudyard Kipling Research Doctors Suffering Exposedyou Exposedto

No man's cub can run with the people of the jungle," howled Shere Khan. "Give By Rudyard Kipling Khan Shere Give Jungle Howled

It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin's Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare. By Rudyard Kipling Merlin Isle Fare Common Earthwater

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. By Rudyard Kipling Borrow Nature Neighbours Trouble Lend

And there's never a law of God or man runs north of Fifty-three. By Rudyard Kipling Fiftythree God Law Man Runs

Men often do their best work blind, for some one else's sake. By Rudyard Kipling Men Blind Sake Work

elephant's trumpeting By Rudyard Kipling Elephant Trumpeting

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice. By Rudyard Kipling Afraid Angry Cowardice Worst Kind

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own. By Rudyard Kipling Daughter House Mother Mistress

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep ... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot! By Rudyard Kipling Making Uniforms Sleep Tommy Chuck

OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth! By Rudyard Kipling Border East West Till Seat

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. By Rudyard Kipling Stairs Backwards Fall

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service By Rudyard Kipling Service Destroyer Submarine Created Type

Seriously, the Burmese girls are very pretty. By Rudyard Kipling Burmese Pretty Girls

Burmese babies - fat, little, brown little divils, as By Rudyard Kipling Fat Burmese Babies Brown Divils

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns ... By Rudyard Kipling Guns God

They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better. By Rudyard Kipling Meat Gave Piece Raw Rikkitikki

Across a world where all men grieveAnd grieving strive the more,The great days range like tides and leaveOur dead on every shore. By Rudyard Kipling Shore World Men Grieveand Grieving

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell. By Rudyard Kipling Sulphur Hell Matches Make

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. By Rudyard Kipling Aunt Treated Beloved Told Children

Cites and Thrones and PowersStand in Time's eyeWhich daily die;But, as new buds put forthTo glad new men, Out of the spend and unconsidered Earth,The cities will rise again By Rudyard Kipling Thrones Time Cites Die Men

It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose. By Rudyard Kipling Mongoose Curiosity Hardest Thing World

God help us for we knew the worst too young. By Rudyard Kipling God Young Knew Worst

No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise;Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes.On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies! By Rudyard Kipling People Absolute Strong Wise Heads

Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee - the madness - and run. "Enter, By Rudyard Kipling Tabaqui Mad Creature Madness Enter

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they. By Rudyard Kipling People

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. By Rudyard Kipling Manage Man Fool Woman Clever

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. By Rudyard Kipling Price High Pay Privilege Owning

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. By Rudyard Kipling Heaven Love Grant Patience Man

Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle. By Rudyard Kipling Russian Shirt Understood Delightful Person

I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this. By Rudyard Kipling World Trays Man Back Sorts

Payday came and with it beer By Rudyard Kipling Payday Beer

Ay, roar well," said Bagheera, under his whiskers, "for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man. By Rudyard Kipling Bagheera Whiskers Tune Man Roar

Remember, Bagheera loved thee," he cried, and bounded away. At the foot of the hill he cried again long and loud, "Good hunting on a new trail, Master of the Jungle! Remember, Bagheera loved thee. By Rudyard Kipling Bagheera Remember Thee Cried Loved

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go! By Rudyard Kipling Ranges Hidden Lost Find Waiting

Darzee was a feather-brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea at a time in his head. By Rudyard Kipling Darzee Head Featherbrained Fellow Hold

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes. By Rudyard Kipling Toad Beneath Harrow Tooth Point

And if somehow my conduct ain't all your fancy paints, why single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints.. From 'Tommy By Rudyard Kipling Tommy Paints Saints Conduct Fancy

Hear what little Red-Eye saith: Nag, come up and dance with death! By Rudyard Kipling Nag Hear Saith Death Redeye

Hearts are like horses. They come and they go against bit or spur. By Rudyard Kipling Hearts Horses Spur Bit

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life. By Rudyard Kipling India Paper Brushes Ink Drew

Then he jumped. The head was lying a little clear of the water jar, under the curve of it; and, as his teeth met, Rikki braced his back against the bulge of the red earthenware to hold down the head. By Rudyard Kipling Jumped Head Rikki Jar Met

Nag coiled himself down, coil by coil, round the bulge at the bottom of the water jar, and Rikki-tikki stayed still as death. By Rudyard Kipling Rikkitikki Coil Nag Round Jar

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. By Rudyard Kipling Failure Excuse Forty Million Reasons

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling. By Rudyard Kipling Manling Tongue Brave Heart Courteous

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. By Rudyard Kipling Tommy Soul Roll Thin Red

four tumbling, squealing cubs, By Rudyard Kipling Tumbling Squealing Cubs

Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, lie low, go slow, and keep cool. By Rudyard Kipling Heatherlegh Lie Low Slow Cool

If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginnings,And never breathe a word about your loss ... By Rudyard Kipling Lose Loss Make Heap Winningsand

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. By Rudyard Kipling Cat Walks Places Alike

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools ... By Rudyard Kipling Brokenand Tools Bear Hear Truth

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week ... The bottom is out of the Universe. By Rudyard Kipling Kettle Leak Worse Repairing Made

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid. By Rudyard Kipling Bite Bullet Man Afraid

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume. By Rudyard Kipling Satan Costume Save Woman Wears

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. By Rudyard Kipling Male Female Species Deadly

Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother, By Rudyard Kipling Brother Sister Oppress Stranger Cubs

All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They! By Rudyard Kipling Good People Agree Sea Nice

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife. By Rudyard Kipling Literature Mistress Wife Splendid Bad

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many. By Rudyard Kipling Properly Twenty Things Care Damn

That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would call on me sometimes in the evenings instead of running about London with his fellow-clerks; and before long, speaking of himself as a By Rudyard Kipling Acquaintance Step London Fellowclerks Long

When the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. By Rudyard Kipling Cat Moon Night Walks Places

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities. By Rudyard Kipling Opening Possibilities Verse Page Chapter

The Bat sets free - The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn By Rudyard Kipling Bat Free Dawn Sets Herds

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 over the price. By Rudyard Kipling Reasons Price Bargain

Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance, By Rudyard Kipling Ignorance Bruised Head Foot Love

- and you'll remember, when they ask you your religion, that you're a Cath'lic. Better say Roman Cath'lic, tho' I'm not fond of the word. By Rudyard Kipling Cathlic Remember Religion Tho Roman

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die. By Rudyard Kipling Law Live Lie Forgive Remember

If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in. - Hindu Proverb. By Rudyard Kipling Broken Water Hindu Proverb Mirror

The white moth to the closing vine,The bee to the open clover,And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy bloodEver the wide world over. By Rudyard Kipling Gypsy White Moth Closing Vinethe

Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me. By Rudyard Kipling Khan Big Shere Grounds Shifted

Father Wolf ran out a few paces and heard Shere Khan By Rudyard Kipling Khan Wolf Shere Father Ran

Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. By Rudyard Kipling West Asia Civilised Methods

There is no sin greater than ignorance. By Rudyard Kipling Ignorance Sin Greater

There is but one task for all One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom fall?[For All We Have and Are] By Rudyard Kipling Freedom Fall Task Life Givewhat

Dolphin-jump in the air By Rudyard Kipling Dolphinjump Air

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. By Rudyard Kipling Pack Wolf Strength

You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved. By Rudyard Kipling Beloved Suspenders Forget

And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat (23). By Rudyard Kipling Grew Lessons Eat Strong Boy

My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand. By Rudyard Kipling Understand Heart Heavy Things

Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme- When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time? By Rudyard Kipling Art Nature Defeats Word Occurred

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. By Rudyard Kipling Stories Forgotten History Taught Form

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. By Rudyard Kipling Woman Smoke Good Cigar

Whimper in the dark, and knew that Vixen had found me at last. She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog. So she By Rudyard Kipling Vixen Whimper Dark Knew Found

(Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the song is lost.) By Rudyard Kipling Rikkitikki Interrupted Lost Rest Song

Well," said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, "marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest? By Rudyard Kipling Rikkitikki Nest Marks Tail Began

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows ... By Rudyard Kipling Rose Grows Pot Begonias Bud

A Man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition. By Rudyard Kipling Man Books Ammunition Red Wine

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition By Rudyard Kipling Wine Books Ammunition Man Red

This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about. By Rudyard Kipling Burma Unlike Land

If men had not this delusion as to the ultra-importance of their own particular employments, I suppose that they would sit down and kill themselves. But their weakness is wearisome, particularly when the listener knows that he himself commits exactly the same sin. By Rudyard Kipling Employments Men Delusion Ultraimportance Suppose

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man. By Rudyard Kipling Man Content Mouth Kite Ape

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain. By Rudyard Kipling War Thing Ill Surely Twould

Anything from Kipling By Rudyard Kipling Kipling

chasing silly rose leaves By Rudyard Kipling Chasing Leaves Silly Rose

To hear is one thing, to know is another. By Rudyard Kipling Thing Hear

There is no one to touch Jane when you're in a tight place. By Rudyard Kipling Jane Place Touch Tight

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. By Rudyard Kipling Francisco San City Inhabited Beauty

And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and are silent! By Rudyard Kipling Eldest Magician Silent Wise Children

been lame in one foot from By Rudyard Kipling Lame Foot

Words are the most powerful drug used by humankind. By Rudyard Kipling Words Humankind Powerful Drug

Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. By Rudyard Kipling Prince Brother Worthy Fellow Beggar

What stands if freedom fall? By Rudyard Kipling Fall Stands Freedom

(It is an order!), By Rudyard Kipling Order

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength. By Rudyard Kipling Private Mulvaney Weaknesses Strength Wholly

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. By Rudyard Kipling Misunderstanding Islands Shouting Lies Seas

We be of one blood, thou and I - By Rudyard Kipling Blood Thou

Ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with By Rudyard Kipling Midnight Silent Kill Wake Woods

And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge! By Rudyard Kipling Waingunga Revenge Lame Butcher Killed

Favouritism governed kissage,Even as it does in this age. By Rudyard Kipling Favouritism Age Governed Kissageeven

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day. By Rudyard Kipling American Meals Drink Man Day

The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. By Rudyard Kipling Law Quoted Lays Life Follow

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. By Rudyard Kipling Condition Understanding Foreign Country Smell

Delight in the little things. By Rudyard Kipling Delight Things

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. By Rudyard Kipling Danegeld Dane Called Paying Proved