Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

One cause of the decay of the power of defense in a state, says the Athenian Stranger in Plato's Laws — one cause is the love of wealth, which wholly absorbs men and never for a moment allows them to think of anything but their private possessions; on this the soul of every citizen hangs suspended, and can attend to nothing but his daily gain; mankind are ready to learn any branch of knowledge and to follow any pursuit which tends to this end, and they laugh at any other; that is the reason why a city will not be in earnest about war or any other good and honorable pursuit.

Semplicità è fare il viaggio di questa vita con solo il bagaglio necessario.

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

The toad, without which no garden would be complete.

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.

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

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
value.

The chopping up of time into rigid periods is an invasion of individual freedom and makes no allowances for differences in temperament and feeling.

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

"And in proportion as riches and rich men are honored in the state, virtue and the virtuous are dishonored. "And what is honored is cultivated, and that which has no honor is neglected.