Charles Dudley Warner Men Quotations

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

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

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.

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?

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

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.

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.

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.

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.