No man but feels more of a man in the wo... by Charles Dudley Warner

Writer World Man American essayist

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.

- Charles Dudley Warner

Other quotes by Charles Dudley Warner

Chess Nothing Man

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

Family Time Being 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.

- 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

People

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

- Charles Dudley Warner

Weather

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

- Charles Dudley Warner

People

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

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