Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

Gently, said the troop horse. Remember they are always like this to begin with. The first time I ever saw a man, I ran for half a day, and if I'd seen a camel, I should have been running still

Do not pay too much attention to fame, power, or money. Some day you will meet a person who cares for none of these, and then you will know how poor you are.

Hemos venido a verle para saber de este país, para leer un libro sobre él y para que nos enseñe mapas. Queremos que nos diga que estamos locos y que nos enseñe libros.

There is no sin as great as ignorance. Remember this.

When you find out you can live without it, go along not thinking about it.

Those who beg in silence starve in silence,' said Kim, quoting a native proverb.

think there is a great deal in you; but you must not become proud and you must not talk.

Hemos venido a verle para saber de este país, para leer un libro sobre él y para que nos enseñe mapas. Queremos que nos diga que estamos locos y que nos enseñe libros.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of cure.

All Pathans are not faithless—except in horseflesh.

As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back-- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

There is no pride,' said the lama, after a pause, 'there is no pride among such as follow the Middle Way.

besides, this is much too good to tell all the other brutes in the Coll. They'd never understand. They play cricket, and say, 'Yes sir', and 'Oh, sir', and 'No, sir'.

Anything from Kipling

Our time is short. I shouldn't have believed that this morning; but now things are different. Binkie, where was Moses when the light went out?' Binkie smiled from ear to ear, as a well-bred terrier should, but made no suggestion.

Anything by Kipling

Lie still, little frog. O though Mowgli--for Mowgli the Frog I will call thee--the time will come when thought wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee.

Interessi e piaceri immediati non possono riempire tutta la vita di un uomo. [La luce che si spense]

But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same; And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.

Ah! – esclamò il Gatto ascoltando. – Questa Donna è molto saggia; ma non saggia come me.

For agony and spoil Of nations beat to dust, For poisoned air and tortured soil And cold, commanded lust, And every secret woe The shuddering waters saw— Willed and fulfilled by high and low— Let them relearn the Law.

The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But does not talk my talk – I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind.

Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

threw his soul after his eye across the deep blue gulfs between range and range.