Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

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

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. - Charles Dudley Warner

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. - 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. - Charles Dudley Warner

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. - Charles Dudley Warner

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman. - Charles Dudley Warner

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. - Charles Dudley Warner

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. - Charles Dudley Warner

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. - Charles Dudley Warner

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. - Charles Dudley Warner

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