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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!


Robert Louis Stevenson

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ISRAEL SHENKER Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Mealtime

"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
HENRY N. BEARD No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampu...
JAMES BLAYLOCK I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b...
FRANCINE PASCAL My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool
GEORGE SANTAYANA The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
THEODOR REIK The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway...
JANE BIRKIN A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
WILLIAM OSLER TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Measure For Measure
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The greatest fool of all is the man who fools himself.
UNKNOWN The truth is that not enough of those who topped St. Louis are left to make it work in St. Louis,
LARRY MATYSIK It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUS No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
DEMOSTHENES In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable...
MARK TWAIN Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable...
MARK TWAIN Duties are not performed for duties' sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortabl...
MARK TWAIN A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
AMERICAN PROVERB A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is...
SENECA The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
MENCIUS Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.
CRISS JAMI The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s...
PAUL HOFFMAN Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....
NORA ROBERTS It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has...
HAROLD MACMILLAN A man who would give advice without understanding is a fool.
J. KYLE MCNEAL A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we li...
ROBERT JORDAN A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself. Indeed he progressed in all thin...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not onl...
EPICURUS The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
CONFUCIUS Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give ...
ANNE RICE The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eterna...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Learn of the skilful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
ANATOLE FRANCE No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seu...
ROBERT PINSKY An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself.
HARVEY COCKS The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
ARISTOTLE A fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER What upsets me most is that our children are not protected. Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School is ...
DENISE SMITH A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
LOUIS L'AMOUR I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy ...
IAN RANKIN The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch
ROBERT BLOCH My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
ARISTOTLE The tragedy of a man who has found himself out
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with ...
J. C. (JAMES CASH) PENNEY Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with ...
J.C. (JAMES CASH) PENNEY A man can fool only one person in the world, himself.
DR HITESH C SHETH The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
JOHN CIARDI The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself
JOHN CIARDI Just for the sake of amusement, ask each passenger to tell you his story, and if you find a single o...
VOLTAIRE A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes...
ROBERT PENN WARREN Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE [Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally ...
ARISTOPHANES I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to ex...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than o...
CRISS JAMI He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG An alarm clock is a device to wake a man up who has no plans or intentions for the future that could...
VIKRANT PARSAI The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
PAULINE KAEL I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young...
HUGH DOWNS A fool who thinks that he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man. The fool who thinks that he...
SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BUDDHISM My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my own sake
ARISTOTLE The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other word...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishono...
AYN RAND No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JONSON It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard
PHAEDRUS A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist--nothing shields him from the world's gaze except h...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself!
V.C. ANDREWS [Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who's a native of Utah, recently said after an ...
JACK ANDERSON A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
BRUCE LEE A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purp...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere an...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says n...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fi...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To the Hesitating Purchaser:

"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it
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