Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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.
Robert Louis Stevenson

No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing made by brute force lasts.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
Robert Louis Stevenson

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson