In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Marriage Quotes

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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...

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.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your...

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your...

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success...

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success...

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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...

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

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 cruelest lies are often told in silence

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is...

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...