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People Quotes by E. W. Howe
- 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.
- When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
- People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.
- People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.
- Some people never have anything except ideals.
- People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
- All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
- Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
- Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a…
- The only thing some people do is get older.
- As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.
- When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind…
- There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
- Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
- When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
- The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
- The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
- Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
- What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
- A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle