All Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
- 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… Design
- One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least… Been
- One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage… Advantage
- To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. Almost Anything
- The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So… All
- There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called… Called
- Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting. Bright
- Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Best
- What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! All
- The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things. It… Among
- There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in… Blade
- Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. Alert
- Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it. Agriculture
- Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire. Apple
- Politics makes strange bedfellows. Bedfellows
- It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side. Argument
- A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. Artificiality
- It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives. All
- Each age has its choice of the death it will die. Age
- Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless. Combination
- Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. Absent
- Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven. Any
- The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe… Any
- Isolation breeds conceit. Breeds
- If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on… Always Bearing