I had tried, as best I could, to forget the people who had said they loved me, and I had been able to do so only by replacing their memory with hatred for them and their crimes. Time is no healer. It scabs the wound...
-
Wesley Stace
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
-
William Faulkner
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
-
Washington Irving
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward To what they were before.
-
William Shakespeare
We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction
-
Orhan Pamuk
More Quotes By Washington Irving
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.
...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.
Such were our minor preparations for the journey, but above all we laid in an ample stock of good-humour, and a genuine disposition to be pleased; determining to travel in true contrabandista style; taking things as we found them, rough or smooth, and mingling with...
To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.
