Author: Charles Dudley Warner

Quotes

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

- 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

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

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.

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.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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 its value.

- 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

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

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

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