Charles Dudley Warner
23 quotes
Biography
"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."
"A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it."
"Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."
"The toad, without which no garden would be complete."
"What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!"
"Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments."
"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!"
"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration."
"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."
"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue."
"The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault."
"The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people evoked as it is by many qualities."
"No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"Broad acres are a patent of nobility and 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 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property."
"It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives."
"It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives."