Quotes by Edgar Watson Howe

“Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go while you may enjoy the flowers you may not eat them.”

“Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better.”

“When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.”

“If 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.”

“What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.”

“A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.”

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

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