Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."
131 Quotes
"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."
Robert Louis Stevenson Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"“Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?”"
Robert Louis Stevenson The Suicide Club
"“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”"
Robert Louis Stevenson
"“Wine is bottled poetry.”"
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"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."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Every man has a sane spot somewhere."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."
Robert Louis Stevenson
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