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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Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
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What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
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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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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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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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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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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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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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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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Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about 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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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
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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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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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The toad, without which no garden would be complete.
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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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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.