Quotes by Stevenson, Robert Louis

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a wi >>

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeabl >>

No man is useless while he has a friend. >>

Quotations about Proverbs

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our >>

A proverb is good sense brought to a point. >>

A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it. >>

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Stevenson, Robert Louis