"You could read Kant by yourself, if you……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site.
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
— Aristotle
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
— Lance Armstrong
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As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
— Michelle Bachelet
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I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, 'This is what I think; there's the truth.' I try to…
— Roseanne Barr
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Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and…
— James M. Barrie
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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
— Lynda Barry
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
— Theodor Adorno
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I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.
— Lewis Black
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People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down…
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I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.
— Sara Blakely
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These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the…
— Michael Bloomberg
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