Charles Dudley Quotes
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
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.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
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.
A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
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.
The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
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
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
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.
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.
The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
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.
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.
