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And there's never a law of God or man runs north of Fifty-three. — Rudyard Kipling

'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An'e's generally shammin' when'e's dead. — Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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. — Rudyard Kipling

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew. — Rudyard Kipling

No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end. — 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

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance. — 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

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work. — 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

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

Cities and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die — 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

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

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. — Rudyard Kipling

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

Men often do their best work blind, for some one else's sake. — 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

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

Leave him alone, he's as mad as a hatter! — Rudyard Kipling

It's always best to tell the truth. — Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

Mark my trail... — Rudyard Kipling

elephant's trumpeting — 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

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

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

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

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. — Rudyard Kipling

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. — Rudyard Kipling

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

Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer. — Rudyard Kipling

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

Politics are not my concern ... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies. — Rudyard Kipling

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. — Rudyard Kipling

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. — Rudyard Kipling

There's no jealousy in the grave. — Rudyard Kipling

There is no harm in a man's cub. — Rudyard Kipling

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice. — Rudyard Kipling

As Kipling said, that's another story... — Harper Lee

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 ... — Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

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