The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Body Quotes

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

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

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

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

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...

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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.

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...

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...

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

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...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

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...

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.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has...

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has...

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.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Every one lives by selling something.

Every one lives by selling something.