(32 quotes found)
“Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire”
Charles Dudley Warner
“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.”
“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value”
“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”
“There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman”
“Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it”
“Politics makes strange bedfellows”
“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.”