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Charles Dudley Warner
15 quotes
“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Backlog Studies, "Second Study” (1873).
“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 (1829–1900) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Studies in the South and West with Comments on Canada (1889).
“A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Editorial, Hartford Courant (27 August 1897); this remark was reportedly quoted by Mark Twain and it has become often attributed to him, but the context of the statement might indicate the contrary situation
“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The toad, without which no garden would be complete.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source