The Good Quote
Open menu
Quotes
Authors
Topics
More
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
Home
Authors
Edward W. Howe
About the author
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Edward W. Howe,
#Love
#Man
#Woman
#Opinion
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edward W. Howe,
#Man
#Worth
#Advice
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
Edward W. Howe,
#Fact
#Theory
A thief believes everybody steals.
Edward W. Howe,
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edward W. Howe,
#Public
#Americans
#Lies
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
Edward W. Howe,
#Man
#Money
#Care
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Edward W. Howe,
#Time
#Children
#Home
#Mothers
#Schools
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Edward W. Howe,
#Old
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
Edward W. Howe,
#Friends
#Enemies
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
Edward W. Howe,
#Will
#Problems
#Geometry
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
Edward W. Howe,
#Work
#Living
#Clothes
#Ideals
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
Edward W. Howe,
#People
#Trouble
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
Edward W. Howe,
#Talk
#Man
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
Edward W. Howe,
#Men
#Idea
#Women
#Rights
#Wrongs
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
Edward W. Howe,
#Love
#Enemy
#Lies
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
Edward W. Howe,
#People
#Will
#Music
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.
Edward W. Howe,
#Trouble
#Friend
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
Edward W. Howe,
#People
#Community
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
Edward W. Howe,
#Man
#Men
#Living
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Edward W. Howe,
#Argument
#Satisfaction
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
Edward W. Howe,
#Men
#Difficulties
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Edward W. Howe,
#Law
#Men
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
Edward W. Howe,
#People
#Trying
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
Edward W. Howe,
#Hope
#Nothing