Charles Dudley Warner quotes - page 2

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)
The toad, without which no garden would be complete. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it. View quote
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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 long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there. View quote
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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. View quote
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A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend -- 'Just as good as the real.' View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
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 on to make one. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well. (Charles Dudley Warner)
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation. View quote
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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. View quote
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The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. View quote
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Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. View quote
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