E. W. Howe Quotes

It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

E. W. Howe

• Real
• Friends
• Enemy

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.

E. W. Howe

• Belief
• Duty
• Benefits

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

E. W. Howe

• American
• Freedom

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.

E. W. Howe

• Good
• Age
• Die

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.

E. W. Howe

• World
• Failure

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.

E. W. Howe

• Good
• Red
• Wolf

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

E. W. Howe

Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.

E. W. Howe

• Sweet
• Kiss
• Abuse

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

E. W. Howe

• People
• Mind

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

E. W. Howe

• Night