I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Gifts Quotes, Habit Quotes

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

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

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another...

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another...

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of...

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of...

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a...

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by...

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage...

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by...

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make...

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make...

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

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

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a...

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a...

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...