| |  | | | | | Quotations by author » Edgar Watson Howe
American Editor, Novelist and Essayist, He was known as the Sage of Potato Hill, 1853-1937 | | Quotes: 1 - 20 of 108 | Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Last | | | | | | A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around | | Uncategorized | | | A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. | | Uncategorized | | | A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife | | Uncategorized | | | A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country | | Obstinacy | | | A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him | | Uncategorized | | | A really busy person never knows how much he weighs | | Uncategorized | | | A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. | | Uncategorized | | | A thief believes everybody steals. | | Theft | | | A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back | | Uncategorized | | | | | | | | | Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him | | Uncategorized | | | All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into. | | Uncategorized | | | American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. | | Uncategorized | | | Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. | | Uncategorized | | | Any man who will look into his heart and honestly write what he sees there, will find plenty of readers. | | Uncategorized | | | As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private. | | Uncategorized | | | Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone | | Common sense | | | Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does. | | Uncategorized | | | | | | | |
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