3 December 2020 E. W. Howe If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe A boy doesn’t have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn’t like pie when he sees there isn’t enough to go around.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe 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.