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.
- Washington Irving Quote

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
- Washington Irving Quote

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- Washington Irving Quote

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
- Washington Irving Quote

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
- Washington Irving Quote

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.
- Washington Irving Quote

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
- Washington Irving Quote

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
- Washington Irving Quote

Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.
- Washington Irving Quote

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
- Washington Irving Quote

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
- Washington Irving Quote

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
- Washington Irving Quote

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
- Washington Irving Quote

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
- Washington Irving Quote

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
- Washington Irving Quote

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
- Washington Irving Quote

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
- Washington Irving Quote

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
- Washington Irving Quote

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- Washington Irving Quote

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
- Washington Irving Quote

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
- Washington Irving Quote

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.
- Washington Irving Quote

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
- Washington Irving Quote

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
- Washington Irving Quote

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
- Washington Irving Quote

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
- Washington Irving Quote

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.
- Washington Irving Quote

There is in every 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 Quote

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
- Washington Irving Quote

They who drink beer will think beer.
- Washington Irving Quote

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.
- Washington Irving Quote