Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner

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Writer · American · 1829–1900

American writer (1829–1900)

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“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

“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

“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 prop...”

— Charles Dudley Warner

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

— Charles Dudley Warner

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

— Charles Dudley Warner

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

— Charles Dudley Warner

“The toad, without which no garden would be complete.”

— Charles Dudley Warner

“What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!”

— Charles Dudley Warner

“Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.”