Top 160 E.W. Howe Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.”

— E.W. Howe

102. “A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.”

— E.W. Howe

103. “The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.”

— E.W. Howe

104. “When you can’t do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.”

— E.W. Howe

105. “The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.”

— E.W. Howe

106. “Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.”

— E.W. Howe

107. “American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.”

— E.W. Howe

108. “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.”

— E.W. Howe

109. “A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.”

— E.W. Howe

110. “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.”

— E.W. Howe

111. “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

112. “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

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

— E.W. Howe

114. “Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.”

— E.W. Howe

115. “Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.”

— E.W. Howe

116. “It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.”

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

118. “None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.”

— E.W. Howe

119. “So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.”

— E.W. Howe

120. “People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.”

— E.W. Howe

121. “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.”

— E.W. Howe

122. “Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.”

— E.W. Howe

123. “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.”

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

126. “No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less.”

— E.W. Howe

127. “Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won’t remove a wart at home this week.”

— E.W. Howe

128. “For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.”

— E.W. Howe

129. “A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.”

— E.W. Howe

130. “There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.”

— E.W. Howe

131. “No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.”

— E.W. Howe

132. “When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.”

— E.W. Howe

133. “Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.”

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

135. “There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.”

— E.W. Howe

136. “Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.”

— E.W. Howe

137. “Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.”

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

139. “If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that’s not orthodox.”

— E.W. Howe

140. “Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.”

— E.W. Howe

141. “It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.”

— E.W. Howe

142. “Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.”

— E.W. Howe

143. “All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.”

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

145. “The only thing some people do is get older.”

— E.W. Howe

146. “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.”

— E.W. Howe

147. “About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.”

— E.W. Howe

148. “The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.”

— E.W. Howe

149. “Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.”

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe