black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Rudyard Kipling

A Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling
RUDYARD KIPLING

Forget God Peace Prayer Right Soldier Time War
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Jungle Listening Nature Talk
If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Ability Work Yourself
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Balance Failure Man Success Yourself
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Beautiful Garden Shade Sing Sit
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Deal Humanity Myself Nature Powerful Word
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Lonely Pay Price Privilege Scare Struggle Tribe Yourself
I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Change Growth Myself Strength Transformation Woman World
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Oneself Place Resistance
There’s no jealousy in the grave.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Grave Jealous
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Fool Man Management Silly Woman
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;!
RUDYARD KIPLING

Blame Doubt Head Lose Man Trust Yourself
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Blame Lose Man Son World Yourself
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Deep Distance Togetherness
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Greatness Ignorance Sin

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Rudyard Kipling Quotes