Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Dog Quotes, Horse Quotes

Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him

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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.

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It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.

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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

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When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

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

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

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

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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

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Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

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

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

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

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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

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Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

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