Washington Irving Quotes & Quotations

Washington Irving Quotes

» In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

» 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 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.

» A woman's life is a history of the affections.

» Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

» They who drink beer will think beer.

» Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

» The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

» There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

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