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Author: Edgar Watson Howe
A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Characteristics
People
Admiration
Modesty
About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Children
People
Harvard
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
America
Characteristics
Honesty
Lies
People
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Age
Facts
Old
Young
Theories
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Accidents
Entertainment
Problems
Ice
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Marriage
Problems
Trouble
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Emotions
Love
Men
People
Women
No man's credit is as good as his money.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Money
People
Credit
Modesty: The gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Characteristics
Modesty
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Time
Farmers
Loafing
There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Husbands
Marriage
Shopping
Wives
Earning
Spending
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
People
Situations
Devil
Neighbors
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Age
Appearance
Old
People
Women
Breakfast
When a man says money can do anything… he hasn't got any.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Money
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Beliefs
Men
People
Women
Rights
Wrongs
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Characteristics
Stubbornness
If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Age
People
Women
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Characteristics
People
Respect
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Characteristics
Men
People
Women
Rights
Wrongs
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Crime
Government
Law
People
Locks
Thieves
A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
Edgar Watson Howe
(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Marriage
Men
People
Women
Proposals
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