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EDGAR WATSON HOWE QUOTES II

No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

It is so easy for society to shock the people who are not in it.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

A conquered foe should be watched.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

The longer a marriage is put off, the less probability that it will occur at all.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

When a man is fifty, the raffle is over, and he knows he hasn't drawn anything; but a young man of nineteen or twenty is just shaking the box for the first show.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

A girl who has been engaged a number of years always looks like a woman who has been married.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

Compliments are often insincere, but fault-finding is always genuine.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, attributed, Killer Quotes: Knock 'Em Dead, Win Your Point

One of the surprising things of this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

Those who are actually in society, are not as ridiculous as those who are trying to get in.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings


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