More Quotes by Washington Irving
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
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.
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
