Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair,… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image