Quotes by Edgar Watson Howe

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

“Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.”

“If a man has money it is usually a sign too that he knows how to take care of it don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.”

“There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money and that is to enjoy earning it.”

“A loafer never works except when there is a fire then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.”

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

“Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable and often impossible.”

“People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.”

“No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.”

“The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed and can't get there is the meanest feeling in the world.”

“Farmers worry only during the growing season but town people worry all the time.”

“Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.”

“A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.”

“Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.”

“If you go to church and like the singing better than the preaching that's not orthodox.”

“If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.”

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

“When a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”

“The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent but in failing to use that one talent.”

“Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.”