black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Related Topics

Ambition Attempt Conceive Console Discourage Mediocre Most Pocket Wisdom

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Enemy Friend Readiest Suppress Truth Weapon
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Behind Being Bettered Cheerful Every Heart Impulse Mankind Strong
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Forget Grand Memory
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Become Capable End Life Only
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Devoted Excercise Intellectual Life Some Succeed Wholly
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Cause Die Hard Man Obstinate Outlive Some Vanity
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Ling Love Other Serve So
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Ambition Attempt Conceive Console Discourage Mediocre Most Pocket Wisdom
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Banquet Consequence Down Everyone Later Sit Sooner
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Church Favorite Great Kind Mountain never Scenery Wear
Wine is bottled poetry.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Bottle Poetry Wine
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Almost Friend Indespensible Long Love Other Useless
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Cathedral Happy Inspire Made Mankind never So
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Avoid Correct Eye Friend Kill Nothing Say Silence Transgreed
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Amixim Care Cultivate Eye Golden Nose Themselves
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Best Find Friend Hornet Traveler Wilderness World

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes