Quotes by E. W. Howe

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

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.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

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

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.