“Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.”
Marriage
“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
AgeAll Quotes by Washington Irving
“He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.”
Imagination“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”
Smile“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.”
Society“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
Love“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.”
Love“The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.”
War“Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.”
Age“The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.”
Sympathy“Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.”
Hope“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.”
Women“One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.”
Learning“Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
Age“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
Friendship“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.”
Great“There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.”
Change“Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.”
Business“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
Age“Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.”
Home“After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.”
Beauty