72 ordspråk av Washington Irving
Washington Irving
Washington Irving föddes den April 3rd 1783 och dog den 28 November 1859 - called the first American man of letters. Best known for the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.
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 After a man passes sixty, his mischief is mainly in his head |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited - every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contr |
| Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. |
| Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart |
| Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them. |
| Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them. |
| Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. |
| He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart |
| 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 |
| I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. |
| I've had it with you and your emotional constipation! |
| In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part. |
| It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them. |
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