Author: Edgar Watson Howe

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

No man's credit is as good as his money.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Modesty: The gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

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.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

When a man says money can do anything… he hasn't got any.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

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

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

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

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor