734 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago

Eyes aloft, over dangerous places, the children follow the butterflies, and in the sweat of their upturned faces, slash with a net at the empty skies.

As swiftly as a reach of still water is crisped by the wind, the rock-strewn ridges and scrub-topped hills were troubled and alive with armed men.

All we have of freedom / All we use or know/ This our fathers bought for us / Long and long ago.

One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door -- / Treason has much, but we, Mother, thy sons have more! / From the whine of a dying man, from the snarl of a wolf-pack freed, / Turn, and the world is thine. Mother, be proud of thy seed! / Count, are we feeble or few? Hear, is our speech so rude? / Look, are we poor in the land? Judge, are we men of The Blood?

Buy a puppy and you will get the most devoted love in the world.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings / And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings,/ And never breathe a word about your loss.

The elephant's a gentleman.

A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke; / And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.