E.W. Howe Quotes

There's no such thing as a wasted wish.

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor in his nose.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

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

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

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.

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

I was born 'neath a clouded star.

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

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.

God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

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

Poetry is telling something to someone.

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace.

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?

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

There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.

...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites...

Why does a heart wear its eyesinto helllike slivers of false sunshine

The way to be nothing is to do nothing

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

Today vegetables. Tomorrow...the world!

Joe: Oo, Brittany "Aren't I Fabulous?" Hobson?Addie: She's not that bad.Joe: Brittany "All the Boys Like Me, I'm so Popular I Could Die" Hobson.Addie: Joe!

Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him.

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

But an attentive researcher--like you--might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions.

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

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

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.

Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free While God is marching on.

There is only one thing people like that is good for them a good night's sleep.

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.

The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent but in failing to use that one talent.

Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.

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

Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better.

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

Mine eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the Lord.