Charles Dudley Warner - Man Quotes

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

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

Charles Dudley Warner
There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs 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
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

Charles Dudley Warner
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
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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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.

Charles Dudley Warner
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

Charles Dudley Warner