Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.”

“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.”

“When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.”

“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”

“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?”

“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”

“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”

“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.”

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”