Lettuce is like conversation; it must be... by Charles Dudley Warner | We Heart Quotes

Writer American essayist Humorist Conversation

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

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Chess Nothing Man

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

Wife Mind World

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.

- Charles Dudley Warner

People

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

- Charles Dudley Warner

History

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

- Charles Dudley Warner

First

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

- Charles Dudley Warner

Help

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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