Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warnerwas an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 September 1829
CountryUnited States of America
marriage husband taken
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.
running dirty taken
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.
friendship regret years
One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.
class sometimes failing
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
fool aspiration
It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
real simple legends
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.
sides argument difficult
It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
blessed agriculture too-much
Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.
grateful garden vegetables
There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.
music voice singing
One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.
strong public-opinion legislature
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
beauty accomplishment grace
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.
men plot fiction
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
memories past journey
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.