Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“and I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I’m… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Her eyes took hold upon mine and clung there, and bound us together like the joining of hands; and the moments we… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“...That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his flesh, where he… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. — 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
