Logo
Quote by Washington Irving
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds r

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

Other quotes by Washington Irving

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

Category:
Dignity
Author
Washington Irving
Read Quote

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. – Washington Irving

Category:
Love
Author
Washington Irving
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
great
category

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. – Joseph Addison

Category:
great

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
great

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
great

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. – Elsa Schiaparelli

Category:
great

Random Quotes

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. – Laurence Binyon

Category:
Breathing

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the worlds total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses. – Barbara Ehrenreich

Category:
Bureaucracy

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle. – Richard Grimes

Category:
Leadership

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum. – Evan Davis

Category:
Government