You may kill for yourselves, and your mates,and your cubs as they need, and you can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, andSEVEN TIMES NEVER KILL MAN.
Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is Run and find out, and Rikki-tikki was a tr...
I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my p...
Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,
Across a world where all men grieveAnd grieving strive the more,The great days range like tides and leaveOur dead on every shore.
A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet.
A is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in child-bed. She haunts lonely roads, her feet are turned backwards on the ankles, and she leads men to torment.
I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who
Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.
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.
Madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
We are dead to love and honor/We are lost to hope and truth/We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung/And the measure of our horror is the measure of our youth/God help us for we knew the worst too...
These be the sort — she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her mouth with — These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe,...
The motto of all the mongoose family is, Run and find out, and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.
His nickname through all the wards was ' Little Friend of all the World'; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny y...
Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
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, th...
And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and are silent!