Author: Charles Dudley Warner

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

- 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

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

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

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