More Quotes by Washington Irving
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.
