Charles Dudley Warner: Zitate auf Englisch
Editorial, Hartford Courant (27 August 1897); this remark was reportedly quoted by Mark Twain and it has become often attributed to him, but the context of the statement might indicate the contrary situation
Paraphrased variant: Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Variante: Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Studies in the South and West with Comments on Canada (1889).
“The toad, without which no garden would be complete.”
Thirteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
“The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.”
Sixteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it.”
Third Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
Ninth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”
Fifteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!”
Eighteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
“What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!”
Fifteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”
Preliminary.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
“Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.”
Sixteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)
