Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
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 th...
E. W. HOWE Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertisi...
E. W. HOWE If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums wo...
E. W. HOWE Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
E. W. HOWE Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
E. W. HOWE A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
E. W. HOWE The most destructive criticism is indifference.
E. W. HOWE Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found t...
E. W. HOWE The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling i...
E. W. HOWE Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. HOWE Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which d...
E. W. HOWE A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
E. W. HOWE Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
E. W. HOWE One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
E. W. HOWE The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
E. W. HOWE When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will hav...
E. W. HOWE The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ...
E. W. HOWE A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E. W. HOWE The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciat...
E. W. HOWE It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult...
E. W. HOWE Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
E. W. HOWE To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
E. W. HOWE Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
E. W. HOWE When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up...
E. W. HOWE A thief believes everybody steals.
E. W. HOWE The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
E. W. HOWE There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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.
E. W. HOWE The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
E. W. HOWE The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at ...
E. W. HOWE People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
E. W. HOWE When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
E. W. HOWE You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well ...
E. W. HOWE When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
E. W. HOWE A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
E. W. HOWE When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
E. W. HOWE The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
E. W. HOWE When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
E. W. HOWE Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
E. W. HOWE For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
E. W. HOWE Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
E. W. HOWE Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
E. W. HOWE Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
E. W. HOWE Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
E. W. HOWE What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
E. W. HOWE There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do an...
E. W. HOWE No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
E. W. HOWE Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.
E. W. HOWE It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfish...
E. W. HOWE If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagi...
E. W. HOWE Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
E. W. HOWE The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.
E. W. HOWE The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
E. W. HOWE A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
E. W. HOWE Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
E. W. HOWE If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the bre...
E. W. HOWE There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
E. W. HOWE The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. HOWE A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
E. W. HOWE No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
E. W. HOWE If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow o...
E. W. HOWE None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve...
E. W. HOWE No man's credit is ever as good as his money.
EDWARD W. HOWE When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.
EDWARD W. HOWE Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
EDWARD W. HOWE If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
EDWARD W. HOWE The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
EDWARD W. HOWE I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
EDWARD W. HOWE If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
EDWARD W. HOWE Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
EDWARD W. HOWE A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
EDWARD W. HOWE A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
EDWARD W. HOWE The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
EDWARD W. HOWE Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
EDWARD W. HOWE Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
EDWARD W. HOWE A thief believes everybody steals.
EDWARD W. HOWE Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
EDWARD W. HOWE As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Priv...
EDWARD W. HOWE Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do .
EDWARD 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'...
EDWARD W. HOWE A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
EDWARD W. HOWE The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
EDWARD W. HOWE The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at ...
EDWARD W. HOWE People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
EDWARD W. HOWE American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
EDWARD W. HOWE A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
EDWARD W. HOWE Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.
EDWARD W. HOWE The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.
EDWARD W. HOWE All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
EDWARD W. HOWE The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
EDWARD W. HOWE What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
EDWARD W. HOWE I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
EDWARD W. HOWE Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.
EDWARD W. HOWE Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
EDWARD W. HOWE Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
EDWARD W. HOWE To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
EDWARD W. HOWE The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
EDWARD W. HOWE Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.
EDWARD W. HOWE Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
EDWARD W. HOWE None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve...
EDWARD W. HOWE You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.
EDWARD W. HOWE Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
EDWARD W. HOWE Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
EDWARD W. HOWE One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
EDWARD W. HOWE The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
EDWARD W. HOWE When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
EDWARD W. HOWE When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
EDWARD W. HOWE Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
EDWARD W. HOWE Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...
EDWARD W. HOWE Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
EDWARD W. HOWE Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.
EDWARD W. HOWE Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
EDWARD W. HOWE It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfish...
EDWARD W. HOWE When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up som...
EDWARD W. HOWE The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...
W. E. CHANNING The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
E. W. DIJKSTRA Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. DIJKSTRA The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and ...
E. W. DIJKSTRA The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offen...
E. W. DIJKSTRA It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposur...
E. W. DIJKSTRA My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
W. E. B. GRIFFIN An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
W. E. B. GRIFFIN Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.
W. E. B. GRIFFIN Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. GATES Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. GATES Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.
W. I. E. GATES Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of...
IRVING HOWE The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
IRVING HOWE In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russi...
FANNY HOWE Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th...
JAMES HOWE I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good s...
FANNY HOWE My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the post...
FANNY HOWE If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A reco...
FANNY HOWE I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stan...
FANNY HOWE I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it ...
GORDIE HOWE Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie T...
JAMES HOWE Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie, ...
JAMES HOWE Anyway, I do not want you thinking that I or Addie or Joe or Skeezie feel sorry for ourselves. We do...
JAMES HOWE The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
NATHANIEL HOWE You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know ...
GORDIE HOWE Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...
JOHN HOWE You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness ...
GORDIE HOWE The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
NATHANIEL HOWE You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.
ED HOWE No man's credit is as good as his money.
ED HOWE I believe in grumbling it is the politest form of fighting known.
ED HOWE Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
ED HOWE The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
ED HOWE When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
ED HOWE Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
ED HOWE A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. See our art...
ED HOWE You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enou...
ED HOWE If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
ED HOWE But now, before that new birth take place in the spirit of man, it wants, but knows not what, craves...
JOHN HOWE Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
ED HOWE Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other.
ED HOWE You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the s...
GORDIE HOWE Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Br...
JOSEPH HOWE You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know ...
GORDIE HOWE More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is ...
JOHN HOWE Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
ED HOWE When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
ED HOWE When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
ED HOWE Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.
ED HOWE We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.
ED HOWE We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we n...
ED HOWE A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
ED HOWE Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you abo...
ED HOWE One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
ED HOWE My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty ...
JOSEPH HOWE She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massin...
KATHERINE HOWE Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different po...
KATHERINE HOWE But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.
KATHERINE HOWE Marketing spending in the fourth quarter of 2005 was a precipitous drop from the two-year high of Q3...
CARL HOWE DVDs are going to push them out of the way. And even DVDs themselves, I think are on their way to be...
CARL HOWE There is no one left.
CARL HOWE The Internet is a great public medium for exchanging information. But if you have information that y...
CARL HOWE People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.
CARL HOWE I don't know [that] they're going to get it cheaper than free. The post office is not the place to l...
CARL HOWE It's about not having to run wires into every room. It's about being able to bring in a little devic...
CARL HOWE The whole idea of the 'X Internet' is that it has to be much more experiential. Now we have to creat...
CARL HOWE It's a high-stakes game, and you can lose those bets.
CARL HOWE If you're going to put information like that on the Web, you'll want to see if the service provides ...
CARL HOWE Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
JOHN HOWE I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
E.W. HOWE A thief believes everybody steals.
E.W. HOWE Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their langu...
JOSEPH HOWE Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.
ED HOWE What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to thr...
JOHN HOWE American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
GORDIE HOWE All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
GORDIE HOWE A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
ED HOWE A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
ED HOWE Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
ED HOWE I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read childr...
JAMES HOWE Luckily, I did and I managed to pull clear of Theo and George on my way to the chequered flag. I fee...
DAVID HOWE My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.
GORDIE HOWE My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in sol...
JOSEPH HOWE ...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually t...
KATHERINE HOWE