Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
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To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
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Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
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No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
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What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
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How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.
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Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
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Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
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The toad, without which no garden would be complete.
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There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.