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.

Quote by Charles Dudley Warner

Topics: Friendship Quotes

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

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,...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

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...

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

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

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...

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly...

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly...

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

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

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.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus...

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus...

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...

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

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