Maxioms by Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the read more
That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the
individual who carries them. . . . May it not read more
Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the
individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the
bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the
streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very
few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not
by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so
by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the
purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically
lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken
purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and
borrowing for the remainder of their lives.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
