171 Quotes by E.W. Howe

At first a woman doesn’t want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

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.

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

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

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

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.