734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears

They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.

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

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.