186 Quotes by E. W. Howe

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

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

Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.