Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
funny-love police matrimony
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
fun men thinking
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
gratitude funeral passing-away
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
men ideas funeral
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
life powerful funeral
Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.
funny life sweet
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
love funny women
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
fun thinking digestion
I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
funny witty political
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
harvest seeds reap
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
inspirational life friendship
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
scottish-writer
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.