68 Notable Quotes By Edgar Watson Howe
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep
A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used to give it expression.
When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
