black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Rudyard Kipling

Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
RUDYARD KIPLING

City Death Eyes Flower Time
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Green Thinking Winter
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Adversity Courage Face Hard Time Himself
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 always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Believe Best Myself Save Trouble
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Death Eat Man Myself Sleep Work
If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Price Reason Try Yourself
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Country Fast Fools Man Money Reputation World
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Dreams Earth Leadership Master Patience Success Wait Yourself
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Nature Neighbor Trouble
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
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Fear Inspirational Motivational Ourselves World Worst
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
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
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Brain God Soldier Weapon Woman Wound Yourself

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Rudyard Kipling Quotes