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

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin. — Rudyard Kipling

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

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. — Rudyard Kipling

...for all art is one, as Kipling has written, and your art chooses you, not you the art. — Michael Powell

We be of one blood, ye and I — Rudyard Kipling

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. — Rudyard Kipling

Thou hast been with the Monkey People - the gray apes - the people without a law - the eaters of everything. — Rudyard Kipling

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew. — Rudyard Kipling

As the dawn comes up like thunder. — Rudyard Kipling

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become. — Rudyard Kipling

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. — Rudyard Kipling

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. — Rudyard Kipling

four tumbling, squealing cubs, — Rudyard Kipling

He will be our friend for always and always and always. — Rudyard Kipling

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

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor?
Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it ... — Grant Morrison

color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle — Rudyard Kipling

All we have of freedom
All we use or know
This our fathers bought for us
Long and long ago — Rudyard Kipling

Now I shall go far and far into the North,
playing the Great Game — Rudyard Kipling

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

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells. — Rudyard Kipling

I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp, said the lama, smiling slowly. — Rudyard Kipling

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume. — Rudyard Kipling

Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent. — Rudyard Kipling

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen. — Rudyard Kipling

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. — Rudyard Kipling

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. — Rudyard Kipling

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength. — Rudyard Kipling

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own. — Rudyard Kipling

If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ... — Rudyard Kipling

God help us for we knew the worst too young. — Rudyard Kipling

You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved. — Rudyard Kipling

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. — Rudyard Kipling

One cannot resist the lure of Africa. — Rudyard Kipling

Well, I believe in miracles, so it comes to — Rudyard Kipling

Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists. — Jorge Luis Borges

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? — Rudyard Kipling

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money. — Rudyard Kipling

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade. — Rudyard Kipling

I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. — Rudyard Kipling

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

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul. — Rudyard Kipling

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows ... — Rudyard Kipling

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. — Rudyard Kipling

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

We be of one blood, thou and I - — Rudyard Kipling

It's clever, but is it art? — Rudyard Kipling

He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart. — Rudyard Kipling

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son. — Rudyard Kipling

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

elephant's trumpeting — Rudyard Kipling

I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I have watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine. — Rudyard Kipling

Baloo made one effort to hurry, but had to sit down panting, — Rudyard Kipling

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

To hear is one thing, to know is another. — Rudyard Kipling

Hear what little Red-Eye saith: Nag, come up and dance with death! — Rudyard Kipling

speak - a thing he would never have dared to do — Rudyard Kipling

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way. The Lama in Kim — Rudyard Kipling

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

They are fools who kiss and tell'
Wisely has the poet sung.
Man may hold all sorts of posts
If he'll only hold his tongue. — Rudyard Kipling

The meaning of my star is war. — Rudyard Kipling

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

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye. — Rudyard Kipling

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. — Rudyard Kipling

To each his own fear'; — Rudyard Kipling

He who faces no calamity gains no courage. — Rudyard Kipling

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Rudyard Kipling

Burmese babies - fat, little, brown little divils, as — Rudyard Kipling

Only the keeper sees
that,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods — Rudyard Kipling

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

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges. — Rudyard Kipling

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue — Rudyard Kipling

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

It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare. — Rudyard Kipling

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

I'm like Kipling's cat - I walk by my wild lone and wave my wild tail where so it pleases me. — L.M. Montgomery

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. — Rudyard Kipling

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

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

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature. — Rudyard Kipling

Let them fall Mowgli, they are only tears. — Rudyard Kipling

Both triumph and disaster are impostors. — Rudyard Kipling

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. — Rudyard Kipling

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

Monkey People? They — Rudyard Kipling

Promised his love to keep her quiet - that he had never — Rudyard Kipling

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

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth. — Rudyard Kipling

Favouritism governed kissage,
Even as it does in this age. — Rudyard Kipling

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! — Rudyard Kipling

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. — Rudyard Kipling

For Kim did nothing with an immense success. — Rudyard Kipling

He who rebukes the World is rebuked by the World — Rudyard Kipling

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

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? — Rudyard Kipling

The flannelled fools at the wicket or the mudied oafs at the goals ... — Rudyard Kipling

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

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! — Rudyard Kipling

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed. — Rudyard Kipling