72 Quotations by Edgar Watson Howe
- 21. Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell ...

- 22. Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

- 23. Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns' people worry all the time.

- 24. Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

- 25. For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

- 26. Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not ...

- 27. Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

- 28. Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

- 29. I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

- 30. I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

- 31. If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

- 32. If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

- 33. If you knew how cowardly your enemy is, you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in ...

- 34. Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

- 35. It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfish ...

- 36. Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

- 37. Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

- 38. Money would be more enjoyable if it took people as long to spend it as it does to earn it.

- 39. Most of us are either too thin to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

- 40. Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

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