Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

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

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

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

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

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.

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

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

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

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

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.

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

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