E.W. Howe Quotes

No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.

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

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

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

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

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

The only thing some people do is get older.

A conquered foe should be watched.

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.

I am about to stop being a get-along kind of guy and turn into somebody who makes a difference.

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

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.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

I can honestly say that retiring will put years on his career.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

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

A poem is no place for an idea.

A women could never be President. A condidate must be over 35, and where are you going to find a woman who will admit she's over 35?

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

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.

A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.

No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

I personally feel very undecided whether it is better for a woman to stay and look after the home or go out to a job.

... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

Recording is best used as a pretty good reason to hang with the family of friends globally scattered.

In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society