Quotes 121 till 140 of 393.
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Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you!
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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson -
Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.
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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
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