A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington IrvingThere is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
Washington IrvingMen are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
Washington Irving