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