More Quotes by Washington Irving
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on.
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.
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
