Top 100 E.W. Howe Quotes
#1. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
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#2. Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.
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#3. Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
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#4. Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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#5. When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.
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#6. Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
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#7. Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
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#8. There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.
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#9. You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.
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#10. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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#11. One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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#12. Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.
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#13. I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.
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#14. Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
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#15. If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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#16. Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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#17. Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
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#18. A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.
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#19. Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
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#20. All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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#21. Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.
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#22. A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.
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#23. It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
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#24. Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.
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#25. When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
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#26. Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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#27. We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.
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#28. No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
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#29. The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.
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#30. One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool
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#31. No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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#32. Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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#33. Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.
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#34. If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.
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#35. A conquered foe should be watched.
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#36. A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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#37. Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~E.W. Howe
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#38. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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#39. The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.
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#40. Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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#41. When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
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#42. If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.
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#43. A women could never be President. A condidate must be over 35, and where are you going to find a woman who will admit she's over 35?
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#44. At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.
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#45. When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.
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#46. There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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#47. When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they've never had, and never will have
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#48. When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
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#49. The only thing some people do is get older.
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#50. The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.
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#51. Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.
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#52. One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
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#53. Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.
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#54. Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.
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#55. To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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#56. No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.
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#57. You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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#58. It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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#59. When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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#60. There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.
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#61. When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
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#62. Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
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#63. Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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#64. It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
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#65. If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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#66. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
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#67. People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.
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#68. If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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#69. A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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#70. There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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#71. Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
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#72. Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.
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#73. Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do ...
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#74. If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.
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#75. We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
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#76. Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
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#77. No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less
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#78. Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
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#79. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.
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#80. The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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#81. A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
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#82. A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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#83. In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.
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#84. Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.
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#85. There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
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#86. If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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#87. The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
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#88. A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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#89. There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
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#90. A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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#91. Good manners do more for a man that good looks.
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#92. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
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#93. Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
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#94. About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
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#95. Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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#96. One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.
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#97. Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.
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#98. Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
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#99. So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
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#100. Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
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