Charles Dudley Warner Quotes & Sayings

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

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

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

“Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.”

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

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

“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.”

“People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.”

“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.”

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