A friend is a present you give yourself.
Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
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A friend is a present you give yourself.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
- To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
- The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.
- Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
- We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
- You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
- A friend is a present you give yourself.
- That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
- No man is useless while he has a friend.
- To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
- Wine is bottled poetry.
Best Quotes
- I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
- There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
- When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
- Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
- The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
- The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
- I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.