E. W. Howe People Quotations

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

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

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

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

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

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

The only thing some people do is get older.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.