Washington Irving Famous Quotes
"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
"Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles."
"Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes."
"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble."
Washington Irving Quotations
"Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something."
Jackie Mason
"When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day."
Marty Bucella
"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."
Helen Gahagan Douglas
"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone."
Benjamin Franklin
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
Keri Hulme
"You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything."
Robert Killinger
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
"If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there"
Jerry Stahl