Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the Wheel.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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. He found a

four tumbling, squealing cubs

So Mowgli sat and cried as though his heart would break; and he had never cried in all his life before.

And burdened Gentile o'er the main, Must bear the weight of Israel's hate Because he is not brought again In triumph to Jerusalem.

If I can attain Heaven for a pice, why should you be envious?

to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting-grounds of his pack or tribe. The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white

Here I am," yapped Vixen, "under the gun-tail with my man. You big, blundering beast of a camel you, you upset our tent. My man's very angry." "Phew!" said the bullocks. "He must be white?

One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward

At the hole where he went in Red-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!)

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?

elephant's trumpeting

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 old And this is the tale that River told...

the village. There he saw a little girl holding

been lame in one foot from

They have no remembrance. They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter, and all is forgotten.

Now Rann the Kite brings home the night

the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself