E. W. Howe Life Quotations

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

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

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

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

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment. It is not possible that the idle tramp is as contented as the farmers along the road who own their own farms, and whose credit is good at the bank in town. When the tramps get together at night, they abuse the farmers, but do not get as much satisfaction out of it as do the farmers who abuse the tramps. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

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