Top 100 E.w. Quotes
#1. Don't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you attempt to - er - 'bring me in' by force, I will have to hurt you.
J.K. Rowling
#2. Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~E.W. Howe
E.W. Howe
#3. I left the Shire,
got 7 outstanding N.E.W.T.'s
and became a Vampire;
Because Winter is Coming...
Various
#4. When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyone's got? Of course he isn't ... It'll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown.
J.K. Rowling
#5. A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#6. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
E.W. Howe
#7. Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.
E.W. Howe
#8. Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
E.W. Howe
#9. Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E.W. Howe
#10. When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.
E.W. Howe
#11. There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#12. [W]e have a tendency to judge others according to ourselves.
Jean Cocteau
#13. In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#15. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#16. Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
E.W. Howe
#17. 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.
E.W. Howe
#18. When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#19. A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.
W.E. Woodward
#20. I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#21. There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.
E.W. Howe
#22. In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#23. You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.
E.W. Howe
#24. [W]e are here to love. Not much else matters.
Francis Chan
#25. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E.W. Howe
#26. One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
E.W. Howe
#27. Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.
E.W. Howe
#28. 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.
E.W. Howe
#29. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#30. Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
E.W. Howe
#31. I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#32. A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
E.W. Howe
#33. A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
E.W. Howe
#34. Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#35. The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#36. If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
E.W. Howe
#37. A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#38. To be certain you're consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the "e," it's from Scotland or some other godforsaken place.
Rashers Tierney
#39. Love, in the final analysis, is wisdom.
E.W. Kenyon
#40. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#41. One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a w-r-i-t-e; in other words, that a playwright is more of a craftsman than an artist of the big novel.
Simon McBurney
#42. Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
E.W. Howe
#43. From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#44. Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#45. 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.
E.W. Howe
#46. I think the Americans are the only people who have good beds. I consider the American bedroom unparalleled for freshness, comfort, and cleanliness. It is worth going all over Europe in order to come home to one's own bed.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#47. And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#48. A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.
E.W. Howe
#49. The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#50. And yet this does not touch the kernel of the problem. Human advancement is not a mere question of almsgiving, but rather of sympathy and cooperation among classes who would scorn charity.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#51. Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.
E. J. W. Barber
#52. The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#53. The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense,
else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W.E.B. Du Bois
#54. It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#55. If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
E.W. Howe
#56. One ever feels his twoness,
an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strenth alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#57. I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#58. The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
E.W. Howe
#59. Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
E.W. Howe
#60. It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
W.E.B. Du Bois
#61. [W]e've learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.
Bill Clegg
#62. High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and whirl and pass, but none there are that intrigue me more than the Souls of White Folk.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#63. Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
E.W. Howe
#64. Would America have been America without her Negro people?
W.E.B. Du Bois
#65. Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.
E.W. Jackson
#66. Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#67. But what of black women? ... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#68. To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#70. The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#71. Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
E.W. Howe
#72. A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E.W. Howe
#73. There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#74. I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#76. And what this ECW is doing is educating you people once again that there IS wrestling, spelt W-R-E-S-T-L-I-N-G, out there.
Terry Funk
#77. All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#78. My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#79. Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that's a fact.
E.W. Jackson
#80. All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
E.W. Howe
#81. [W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.
Countee Cullen
#82. 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.
E.W. Howe
#83. Success followed as it will, when one longs to fail.
Bunny
E.W. Hornung
#84. I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.
Gillian Jacobs
#85. A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.
E.W. Howe
#86. [W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly.
Adolf Hitler
#87. 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.
E.W. Howe
#88. For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#89. Do not be dust in the wind, but the wind that creates the dust storm.
E.W. Greenlee
#91. Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn them into pawns for that movement so that they can sexualize them at the earliest possible age. It really is insidious and I agree with you, it is a super sin.
E.W. Jackson
#92. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
E.W. Howe
#93. Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
E.W. Howe
#94. There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise
W.E.B. Du Bois
#95. The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#96. Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.
E.W. Howe
#97. Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.
E.W. Howe
#98. But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#99. The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.
E.W. Howe
#100. A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.
E. W. Scripps
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