Top 100 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. Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.
Mary Bell
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
Alexander Pope
#6. 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
#7. Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.'
Chris Squire
#8. You know what Gordie Howe got for a signing bonus? A team jacket!
Ed Lauter
#9. Ladies, stock and tend your hive,
Trifle not at thirty-five;
For, howe'er we boast and strive,
Life declines from thirty-five;
He that ever hopes to thrive
Must begin by thirty-five.
Samuel Johnson
#10. Upon my lips the breath of song,
Within my heart a rhyme,
Howe'er time trips or lags along,
I keep abreast with time!
Clinton Scollard
#11. I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.
Frederick Sanger
#12. For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and Laura Howe make amazing things. You can get a designer skirt with cool embroidery for 40 bucks instead of $400 or $4,000.
Jill Soloway
#13. Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~E.W. Howe
E.W. Howe
#15. Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1.
-Duncan Howe
Ann Brashares
#16. Had Howe pressed on the afternoon of the 27th, the British victory could have been total. Or had the wind turned earlier, and the British navy moved into the East River, the war and the chances of an independent United States of America could have been long delayed, or even ended there and then.
David McCullough
#17. If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.
Gordie Howe
#18. When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.
Ann Hood
#19. If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts;
Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void
Deanne Williams
#20. No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
William Cowper
#21. My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.
Henry Laurens
#22. The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
Edward Young
#23. One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.
Steve Yzerman
#24. Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#25. Gen. Washington having recrossed the Schuylkill, determined, on the 16th of September, again to meet Gen. Howe in the field of battle. The arrangements were made and the advance parties had already commenced firing, when there came on a violent shower of rain, which unfitted both armies for action.
Benjamin Tallmadge
#26. Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game he layed the lumber to Gordie's head. Later Howe retalliated and wanted to let the kid know he wasn't washed up yet.
Gordie Howe
#27. Exactly fourteen minutes behind schedule I walked into the law offices of Dewy, Cheatum and Howe.
Gemma Halliday
#28. I wish more people knew Steve Howe the way I knew him. His struggles in life were well documented, but he always tried to fight through them and I will always respect that. My thoughts and prayers go out wife Cindy and his family.
Brian Cashman
#29. My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem ... a little crazy to you.
Stephenie Meyer
#30. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.
James Howe
#31. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
E.W. Howe
#32. Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.
E.W. Howe
#33. 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
#34. Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
E.W. Howe
#35. 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
#36. There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.
Geoffrey Howe
#37. Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E.W. Howe
#38. When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.
E.W. Howe
#39. 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
#40. I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.
Susan Howe
#41. Don't you think that the best things are already in view?
Julia Ward Howe
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.
E.W. Howe
#45. You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.
E.W. Howe
#46. 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
#47. The first time I met Wayne Gretzky ... he never said anything back.
Gordie Howe
#48. 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
#49. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E.W. Howe
#50. One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
E.W. Howe
#51. Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.
E.W. Howe
#52. The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.
Tina Howe
#53. 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
#54. Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
E.W. Howe
#55. 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
#56. A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
E.W. Howe
#57. [Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them
James Howe
#58. A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
E.W. Howe
#59. As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
Julia Ward Howe
#60. 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
#61. Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
E.W. Howe
#62. What must it be like
to move through your days always
in step with a friend?
James Howe
#63. Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.
Joseph Howe
#64. 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
#65. A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.
E.W. Howe
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
E.W. Howe
#70. I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.
Linda Moulton Howe
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.
Edgar Watson Howe
#74. Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
E.W. Howe
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.
Katherine Howe
#78. Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
E.W. Howe
#80. I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.
John Howe
#81. 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
#82. Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
E.W. Howe
#83. There's no such thing as a wasted wish.
James Howe
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E.W. Howe
#88. Science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."
George Howe Colt
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.
Marie Howe
#93. 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
#94. Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.
James Howe
#95. 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
#96. All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
E.W. Howe
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.
E.W. Howe
#100. 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
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