186 Quotes by E. W. Howe

A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.