38 ordspråk av Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman
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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.
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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.
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There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help
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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
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it
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What a man needs in gardening is a cast iron back, with a hinge in it
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