"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police." — Robert Louis Stevenson

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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More Friendship Quotes

This quote is filed under Friendship Quotes, one of 6,342 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is… — Pietro Aretino
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the… — Aristophanes
A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;… — Aristotle
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle

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