E. W. Howe Quotes
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People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.
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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.
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How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.
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I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
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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.
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I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.
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There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.
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Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.