186 Quotes by E. W. Howe

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.