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

Quote by Charles Dudley Warner

Topics: Boys Quotes

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate...

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate...

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

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

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for...

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for...

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if...

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if...

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties...

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties...

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Politics makes strange bedfellows

Politics makes strange bedfellows

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

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

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of...

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of...

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today...

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today...

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of...

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of...

Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a...

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a...

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

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

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