Charles Dudley Warner Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Famous Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner
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“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”
Boys Quotes
“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”
Boys Quotes
“I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.”
Generosity Quotes
“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.”
Regret Quotes
“A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.'”
Cynicism Quotes
“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”
Purity Quotes
“Politics makes strange bed-fellows.”
Politics / government Quotes
“The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.”
Friendship Quotes
“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - My Summer in a Garden.”
Loneliness and solitude Quotes
“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.”
Simplicity Quotes
“The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.”
Tax Quotes
“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. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - My Summer in a Garden.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.”
Weather Quotes
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