More Quotes by Washington Irving
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.
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.
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven
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.
