More Quotes by Washington Irving
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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.
He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
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.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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.
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
