Edward W. Howe Quotes


"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Advice, Man, Worth)

"A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Fact, Theory)

"A thief believes everybody steals."
- Edward W. Howe
"Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Americans, Lies, Public)

"If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Money, Care, Man)

"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Home, Time, Children, Mothers, Schools)

"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Old)

"Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Enemies, Friends)

"It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Geometry, Problems, Will)

"Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Work, Clothes, Ideals, Living)

"When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: People, Trouble)

"No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Man, Talk)

"Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Men, Women, Idea, Rights, Wrongs)

"You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Love, Enemy, Lies)

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Music, People, Will)

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Friend, Trouble)

"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: People, Community)

"There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Men, Living, Man)

"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Argument, Satisfaction)

"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Men, Difficulties)

"Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Men, Law)

"People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: People, Trying)

"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Hope, Nothing)