Edgar Watson Howe
44 quotations
I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.