A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
Washington Irving
That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.
Washington Irving
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. Tales of a Traveler (1824)
Washington Irving
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
Washington Irving
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
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.
Washington Irving
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. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819-1820), 'The Wife'
Washington Irving
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal – every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open – this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving
They who drink beer will think beer.
Washington Irving
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Washington Irving
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. Bracebridge Hall. Bachelors (1822)
Washington Irving