He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammeh, on her old platform, opposite the old Ajaib gher, the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon', hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot.
Rudyard KiplingTags: best-opening-lines
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
Rudyard Kiplingand when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.
Rudyard Kiplingbut why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?
Rudyard KiplingTags: wisdom
For Kim did nothing with an immense success.
Rudyard KiplingPleasant it is for the Little Tin Gods
When great Jove nods;
But Little Tin Gods make their little mistakes
In missing the hour when great Jove wakes.
When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue.
The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
Rudyard KiplingTags: overwork
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Rudyard KiplingWhat is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue
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