Rudyard Kipling

“Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother.”

“Now Rann the Kite brings home the nightThat Mang the Bat sets free—The herds are shut in byre and hutFor loosed till dawn are we.This is the hour of pride and power,Talon and tusk and claw.Oh, hear the call!--Good hunting allThat keep the Jungle Law!”

“Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.”

“We be of one blood, ye and I”

“When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, he shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside,but the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

“Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.”

“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 DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;”

“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”

“All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.”

“but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?”

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

“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.”

“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”

“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”

“What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue”

“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...”

“... 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.”

“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.”

“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”

“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”

“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.”

“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.”

“The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.”

“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.”

“For Kim did nothing with an immense success.”

“I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.”

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

“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”

“A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.”

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.”

“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”

“When the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.”

“The Irish move to the sound of the guns like salmon to the sea”

“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!”

“El éxito comienza en la voluntad”

“This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.”

“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!”

“Nosotros no nos hemos separado por completo, pero aún no ha llegado el momento de que volvamos juntos a la carretera. Ahora está adquiriendo conocimientos en otro lugar. No tenemos más remedio que esperar.”

“...If you can make one heap of all your winnings And 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; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!”

“If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.”

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

“Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.”

“Mark my trail...”

“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!”

“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“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,...”

“For the world is wondrous large,Seven seas from marge to marge,And it holds a vast of various kinds of man.And the wildest dreams of KewAre the facts of Khatmandu,And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban.MORAL: Judge not that ye be not judged.”

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

“Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way.”

“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.”