99 Quotations by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 21. Everyone lives by selling something.
- 22. Fifteen men on the dead man's chest -- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
- 23. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
- 24. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is ...
- 25. For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chambe ...
- 26. Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet min ...
- 27. Happiness, at least is not solitary; it joys to communicate; it loves others, for it depends on them ...
- 28. He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton for my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but t ...
- 29. His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ...
- 30. I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is off ...
- 31. I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wa ...
- 32. I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I ...
- 33. I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so ha ...
- 34. If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have call ...
- 35. If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they ...
- 36. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
- 37. Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
- 38. It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves ...
- 39. It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
- 40. It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli ...
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