Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it.

Charles Dudley Warner
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Charles Dudley Warner
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Charles Dudley Warner
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles Dudley Warner
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.

Charles Dudley Warner
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Charles Dudley Warner
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Charles Dudley Warner
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles Dudley Warner
A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Charles Dudley Warner
You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.

Charles Dudley Warner
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.

Charles Dudley Warner
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

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A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

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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 knowledge of him.

Charles Dudley Warner
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warner
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 is that your neighbor can do the same.

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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.

Charles Dudley Warner
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

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The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

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A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

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Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Charles Dudley Warner
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.

Charles Dudley Warner