Top 160 E.W. Howe Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “When a man is trying to sell you something, don’t imagine he is that polite all the time.”

— E.W. Howe

102. “Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.”

— E.W. Howe

103. “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

104. “The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can’t get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.”

— E.W. Howe

105. “Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.”

— E.W. Howe

106. “No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.”

— E.W. Howe

107. “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

108. “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

109. “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

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

— E.W. Howe

111. “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

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. “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

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

— E.W. Howe

115. “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

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

— E.W. Howe

117. “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

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

123. “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

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

— E.W. Howe

125. “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

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

— E.W. Howe

127. “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

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

133. “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

134. “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

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

140. “The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.”

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

145. “Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.”

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

147. “The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.”

— E.W. Howe

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

— E.W. Howe

149. “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

150. “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