Author: Charles Dudley Warner

Quotes

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

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

- 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.

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.

- Charles Dudley Warner

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

- Charles Dudley Warner

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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 boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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.

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.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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.

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.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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