Quotes
Quotes - Stevenson
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within the reach of our resources. Both now depend upon human decision and human will.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart.
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
