More Quotes by Washington Irving
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
