Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Charles Dudley Warner on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.
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.
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.
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden ... name things as I find them.
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.
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
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.
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.