Charles Dudley Warner Quotes - Page 3

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

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.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

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.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

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.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.