If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Friendship Quotes

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

No man is useless while he has a friend.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

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...

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from...

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like...

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like...

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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

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

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man...

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man...