“If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.”
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Famous E. W. Howe Quotes
“Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.”
“If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.”
“If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.”
“Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.”
“If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.”
“If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.”
“The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.”
“Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.”
“No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.”
“Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.”
“If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.”