More Quotes by Washington Irving
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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.
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
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.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
