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E. W. Howe Quotes

1853–1937 United States

Edgar Watson Howe (May 3, 1853 – October 3, 1937), sometimes referred to as E. W.

United States
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Also known as: Ed Howe

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36 quotes

There is usually enough of everything on the table except cream.

Country Town Sayings (1911)

No man knows where his business ends and his neighbor's begins.

Country Town Sayings (1911)

I know what women expect, and give it to them without disagreeable argument; they'll get it anyway.

Ventures in Common Sense (1919)

Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.

Ventures in Common Sense (1919)

Abusing the prosperous in order to curry the favor of the envious, is an old game that still works better than it should.

Country Town Sayings (1911)

As a rule, you'll not have much trouble having your way, if you are right.

Country Town Sayings (1911)

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.

Ventures in Common Sense (1919)

Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.

Country Town Sayings (1911)

Every man has a long list of things that should be done, but which he knows can't be done. Yet he continues to talk about them as long as he lives.

E.W. Howe's Monthly (1911)

A man who does not fool himself seldom cares much about fooling others. But the man who claims to have seen a ghost wants everybody else to believe in ghosts.

Ventures in Common Sense (1919)

So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.

Country Town Sayings (1911)

When you hear that a certain man is so good that he wants to help everybody, you may depend upon it that he started the story.

Ventures in Common Sense (1919)

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

I have noticed that my likes and dislikes do not create any great excitement. And how people try to get away when I attempt to talk!

E.W. Howe's Monthly (1911)

When half the people believe one thing, and the other half another, it is usually safe to accept either opinion. The Democrats are as good as the Republicans, and the Catholics as good as the Protestants.

Ventures in Common Sense (1919)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: E. W. Howe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.