Howe Quotes

#1. Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride,
Howe'er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt
For any living thing, hath faculties
Which he has never used; that thought with him
Is in its infancy ...

William Wordsworth

#2. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

James Howe

#3. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

E.W. Howe

#4. Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.

Mary Bell

#5. Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

E.W. Howe

#6. When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

Marie Howe

#7. Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

E.W. Howe

#8. Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

Irving Howe

#9. There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

Geoffrey Howe

#10. Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

E.W. Howe

#11. When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.

E.W. Howe

#12. I propose going up the Delaware, In order to be nearer this place than I should be by taking The course of the Chesapeake which I once intended."1 - William Howe, July 16, 1777

Michael Harris

#13. Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

James Wong Howe

#14. I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

Susan Howe

#15. Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

Julia Ward Howe

#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. There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

E.W. Howe

#19. You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

E.W. Howe

#20. I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.

Julia Ward Howe

#21. The first time I met Wayne Gretzky ... he never said anything back.

Gordie Howe

#22. Sometimes it's not how much light you use to get an effect, it's how
little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be
broken in photography, and you've got to have courage.

James Wong Howe

#23. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

E.W. Howe

#24. One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

E.W. Howe

#25. Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

E.W. Howe

#26. The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.

Tina Howe

#27. 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

#28. Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

E.W. Howe

#29. Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor.

Sally Armstrong

#30. I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.

Fanny Howe

#31. A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

E.W. Howe

#32. [Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

James Howe

#33. A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

E.W. Howe

#34. As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

Julia Ward Howe

#35. 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

#36. Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

E.W. Howe

#37. What must it be like
to move through your days always
in step with a friend?

James Howe

#38. Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Joseph Howe

#39. 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

#40. A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

E.W. Howe

#41. I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.

Gordie Howe

#42. Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable ... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.

Marie Howe

#43. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. Oh! be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on.

Julia Ward Howe

#44. If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

E.W. Howe

#45. I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.

Linda Moulton Howe

#46. In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses.

Susan Howe

#47. 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

#48. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

Alexander Pope

#49. People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.

Edgar Watson Howe

#50. Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

E.W. Howe

#51. It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

Julia Ward Howe

#52. The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy.

Geoffrey Howe

#53. In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.

Katherine Howe

#54. Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

E.W. Howe

#55. All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

Julia Ward Howe

#56. I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

John Howe

#57. The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

Julia Ward Howe

#58. Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

E.W. Howe

#59. There's no such thing as a wasted wish.

James Howe

#60. They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.

Joseph Howe

#61. When a Girl's on a pedestal, there's nothing some people would like better than to shove her off it, just to know what kind of noise she'd make when she shattered.

Katherine Howe

#62. When she said that last part, she raised her eyebrows, or at least, I thought that's what she was trying to do. The Botox made it so all she could do was widen her eyes until they bulged.

Katherine Howe

#63. A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

E.W. Howe

#64. Science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

George Howe Colt

#65. If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.

Fanny Howe

#66. You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

Gordie Howe

#67. Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

Marie Howe

#68. The kid looks good in his first game.

Gordie Howe

#69. Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch

James Howe

#70. Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

James Howe

#71. I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

Gordie Howe

#72. All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

E.W. Howe

#73. Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.

Irving Howe

#74. 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

#75. A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

E.W. Howe

#76. He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is wisdom to the mighty, he is succour to the brave, So the world shall be his footstool, and the soul of Time his slave, Our God is marching on.

Julia Ward Howe

#77. 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

#78. Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,
namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

Julia Ward Howe

#79. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

E.W. Howe

#80. Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled / among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.

Marie Howe

#81. My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

Gordie Howe

#82. General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

Gilbert White

#83. Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Samuel Gridley Howe

#84. I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

Julia Ward Howe

#85. 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

#86. God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Julia Ward Howe

#87. The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.

George Howe Colt

#88. The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

Irving Howe

#89. Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

Julia Ward Howe

#90. Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

E.W. Howe

#91. 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

#92. It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war, and the substitution of a public opinion equipped with all the facts and taken into the confidence of the ruling classes, that peace can be assured to the world.

Frederic C. Howe

#93. My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

Joseph Howe

#94. Photography must be integrated with the story.

James Wong Howe

#95. 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

#96. Sometimes I think it's easier to stand up to the whole school
or the whole world even
than it is to stand up to one person, especially if that person really matters to you.

James Howe

#97. When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

E.W. Howe

#98. When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

E.W. Howe

#99. Harold (about max): he looks kinda like a football couch
Chester (sarcastically): Yay team rah rah. if he says anything athletic i'll scream
max: want to jog?
(chester screams).

James Howe

#100. The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, We stop here; do you stop also.

Julia Ward Howe