Washington Irving Funny Quotes

Quotes about: Funny

• They who drink beer will think beer.

  Washington Irving

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

  'The Sketch Book' (1820) 'Stratford-on-Avon'

• The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

  Washington Irving

  Funny, Communication, Humor

• 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

  Funny, Men, Worry

  Washington Irving (1842). “A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty : Containing Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William, the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter, the Headstrong--the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Or Ever Will be Published”, p.157

• Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

  Washington Irving

  Funny, Business, Humorous

  Washington Irving (1824). “Salmagundi: or, the Whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and others. vol. 1, 2. no. 1-20. 24 Jan. 1807-25 Jan. 1808”, p.212

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