Edgar Watson Howe quotes
"Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies."
Take this quote mobile"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public."
"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."
"Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth."
"Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time."
"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old."
"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
"One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool."
"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."