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More Quotes by Washington Irving
after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
