Explore Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

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.

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

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

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

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

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world._x000D__x000D_You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

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