186 Quotes by E. W. Howe

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.