Quotes from E. W. Howe

History is to the effect that man's sins always find him out; but men continue to bet that they won't.

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.

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

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.

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.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

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.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

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

Some people never have anything except ideals.

The better a pie tastes, the worse it is for you.