The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.


Irving Berlin

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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
IRVING LAYTON
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no busi...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with cons...
WASHINGTON IRVING
They who drink beer will think beer.
WASHINGTON IRVING
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity t...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
WASHINGTON IRVING
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
WASHINGTON IRVING
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil ...
WASHINGTON IRVING
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
IRVING LAYTON
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
IRVING LAYTON
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveli...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be suppla...
WASHINGTON IRVING
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
WASHINGTON IRVING
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
IRVING LAYTON
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
WASHINGTON IRVING
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are...
CLIFFORD IRVING
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not s...
IRVING KRISTOL
The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a...
WASHINGTON IRVING
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value
IRVING FISHER
Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
IRVING BATCHELLER
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lea...
WASHINGTON IRVING