Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes - Page 2 of 2

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Category: Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.