Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“...in my own perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon-keeping the mutineers together… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case;… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“One generation after another falls like honeybees upon this memorable forest, rifle its sweets, pack themselves with vital memories, and when the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
