Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
American - Journalist September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Charles Dudley Warner
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
Charles Dudley Warner
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Charles Dudley Warner
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Charles Dudley Warner
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Charles Dudley Warner
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
Charles Dudley Warner
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
Charles Dudley Warner
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
Charles Dudley Warner
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
Charles Dudley Warner
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Charles Dudley Warner
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Charles Dudley Warner
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Charles Dudley Warner
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
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Charles Dudley Warner
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Charles Dudley Warner
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
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
Charles Dudley Warner
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
Charles Dudley Warner
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
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Charles Dudley Warner
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.
Charles Dudley Warner
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.
Charles Dudley Warner
Florence Kelley Quotes
American - Activist September 12, 1859 - February 17, 1932
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
Florence Kelley
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
Florence Kelley
In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
Florence Kelley
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
Florence Kelley
Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
Florence Kelley
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.
Florence Kelley
The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
Florence Kelley
The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.
Florence Kelley
Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.
Florence Kelley
Maurice Chevalier Quotes
French - Actor September 12, 1888 - January 1, 1972
The crime of loving is forgetting.
Maurice Chevalier
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
Maurice Chevalier
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Maurice Chevalier
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
Maurice Chevalier
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
Maurice Chevalier
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
Maurice Chevalier
Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
Maurice Chevalier
The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
Maurice Chevalier
Arthur Hays Sulzberger Quotes
American - Publisher September 12, 1891 - December 11, 1968
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Han Suyin Quotes
Chinese - Writer Born: September 12, 1917
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
Han Suyin Ti
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. Han Suyin
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