E.W. Howe Quotes

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

The biggest frontier opens up in front of us and rather than be afraid of it, we should go forward with courage.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

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.

Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

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

Sometimes it’s not how much light you use to get an effect, it’s how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and you’ve got to have courage.

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

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

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

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in

We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.