816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude.

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.