More Quotes by Washington Irving
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
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.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
