E. W. Howe Quotes
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Abusing the prosperous in order to curry the favor of the envious, is an old game that still works better than it should.
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The experience of the world is worth more than the experience of any one man.
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Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.
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No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
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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.
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Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
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A man needs a friend not to flatter him, but to strengthen him at his weak points.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.
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We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.
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Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
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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.
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The trouble in the world is nearly all due to the fact that one-half of the people are men, and the other half women.
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As a rule, you'll not have much trouble having your way, if you are right.
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A loafer never works except when there's a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
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Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
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There is usually enough of everything on the table except cream.
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Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.
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However disagreeable a situation is to you, you cannot get rid of it by indignation.
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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.
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A man who does not fool himself seldom cares much about fooling others. But the man who claims to have seen a ghost wants everybody else to believe in ghosts.