Edgar Watson Howe Famous Quotes
"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old."
"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
"One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool."
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
"I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense."
"Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better."
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
"Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him."
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edgar Watson Howe Quotations
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Cynthia Ozick
"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."
Johann von Goethe
Those who stand strong will stand forever.
Joshua D Clark
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
Willa Cather
"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)"
Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf
"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
William Bridges
"Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt."
Berthold Auerbach
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Michael Eisner
"The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much."
Germain G Glidden