Author: Charles Dudley Warner

Quotes

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

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

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

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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