Quotes

“The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.” Washington Irving

“There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.” Washington Irving

“I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!” Washington Irving

“A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.” Washington Irving

“The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.” Washington Irving

“A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.” Washington Irving

“Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.” Washington Irving

“He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.” Washington Irving

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

“The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.” Washington Irving

“I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.” Washington Irving

“Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.” Washington Irving

“Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.” Washington Irving

“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.” Washington Irving

“Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.” Washington Irving

“Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.” Washington Irving

“The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.” Washington Irving

“The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.” Washington Irving

“Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.” Washington Irving

“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.” Washington Irving

“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.” Washington Irving

“It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.” Washington Irving

“The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.” Washington Irving

“There is 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.” Washington Irving

“After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.” Washington Irving

“Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.” Washington Irving

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” Robert Green Ingersoll

“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.” Robert Green Ingersoll

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” Robert Green Ingersoll

“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.” Robert Green Ingersoll