Edgar Watson Howe - From the Aging category:
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Amusement category:
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Books category:
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Business category:
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Criticism category:
Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Criticism category:
The most destructive criticism is indifference. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Faith category:
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Friendship category:
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. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Gender category:
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Health category:
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Humility category:
The great humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Music category:
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Problems category:
The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Recognition category:
A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Selling category:
When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Silence category:
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Sleep category:
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Success category:
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Suffering category:
Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Time category:
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Winning category:
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Wisdom category:
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. (Edgar Watson Howe)
Edgar Watson Howe - From the Worth category:
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. (Edgar Watson Howe)
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