95 Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner

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

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.

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.

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

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

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

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.