E.W. Howe Quotes

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

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.

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

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

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

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

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

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

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

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.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

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

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.

I am living. I remember you.

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

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

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.