Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better. – E. W. Howe
A boy doesn’t have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn’t like pie when he sees there isn’t enough to go around. – E. W. Howe
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. – E. W. Howe
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it. – E. W. Howe
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. – E. W. Howe
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can’t do. – E. W. Howe
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. – E. W. Howe
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. – E. W. Howe
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. – E. W. Howe
If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old. – E. W. Howe
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. – E. W. Howe
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. – E. W. Howe
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. – E. W. Howe
