Howe Quotes & Sayings

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. — Julia Ward Howe

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

Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence. — E.W. Howe

His message was to follow the Course, don't put it on a pedestal, and don't deify it or make it a holy text. — Carol Howe

Legendary rock musician. Poet laureate of the working class. Voice of America's conscience. — Harrison Howe

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense. — E.W. Howe

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. — Samuel Gridley Howe

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

I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves. — James Howe

What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results. — E.W. Howe

When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children. — Ann Hood

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,
namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought. — Julia Ward Howe

When a Girl's on a pedestal, there's nothing some people would like better than to shove her off it, just to know what kind of noise she'd make when she shattered. — Katherine Howe

The first time I met Wayne Gretzky ... he never said anything back. — Gordie Howe

As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace. — Julia Ward Howe

If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority. — E.W. Howe

There is utopia and utopia. The kind imposed by an elite in the name of a historical imperative - that utopia is hell. It must lead to terror and then, terror exhausted, to cynicism and torpor. But surely there is another utopia. It cannot be willed either into existence or out of sight, it speaks for our sense of what may yet be. — Irving Howe

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact. — E.W. Howe

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him. — E.W. Howe

Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence. — Irving Howe

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship. — E.W. Howe

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office. — E.W. Howe

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

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well. — 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

Good readers make much out of little. — Irving Howe

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast. — E.W. Howe

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time. — E.W. Howe

Edwards's stark presentation of the immanent consciousness of Separation enters the structure of her poems. Each word is a cipher, through its sensible sign another sign hidden. The recipient of a letter, or combination of letter and poem from Emily Dickinson, was forced much like Edwards' listening congregation, through shock and through subtraction of the ordinary, to a new way of perceiving. Subject and object were fused at that moment, into the immediate feeling of understanding. This re-ordering of the forward process of reading is what makes her poetry and the prose of her letters among the most original writing of her century. — Susan Howe

I propose going up the Delaware, In order to be nearer this place than I should be by taking The course of the Chesapeake which I once intended."1 - William Howe, July 16, 1777 — Michael Harris

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven. — Marie Howe

You can spit until you're dry, but you'll never make a lake — James Howe

The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star. — George Howe Colt

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it. — E.W. Howe

The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is there instead of what I thought was there. Like this shell. I can either spend all my time wishing it were perfect, trying to imagine it the way it was or might have been, or I can see how beautiful it is just like this. — James Howe

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time. — 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

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word ... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns. — James Howe

When I was growing up my mother used to tell me that the best gift parents could give their children was to have a strong and loving relationship with each other. — George Howe Colt

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever. — Julia Ward Howe

Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling. — Irving Howe

Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them. — Gordie Howe

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. — E.W. Howe

One reason why the cycle of archetypes recurs is that each youth generation tries to correct or compensate for what it perceives as the excesses of the midlife generation in power. For example, Boomers (a Prophet generation, whose strength is individualism, culture and values) raised Millennial children (a Hero generation, whose strength is in collective civic action). Archetypes do not create archetypes like themselves, they create opposing archetypes. Your generation isn't like the generation that shaped you, but it has much in common with the generation that shaped the generation that shaped you. — William Strauss

Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views. — Geoffrey Howe

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

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. — E.W. Howe

I personally feel very undecided whether it is better for a woman to stay and look after the home or go out to a job. — Geoffrey Howe

The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are. — Tina Howe

In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses. — Susan Howe

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe

Impossible," he said "I am in love with my food source. — James Howe

Maybe this is what it's like for all only children: To love the family that isn't almost as much as the one that is. — James Howe

A poem is no place for an idea. — E.W. Howe

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. — Joseph Howe

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard. — E.W. Howe

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society. — Julia Ward Howe

I wish more people knew Steve Howe the way I knew him. His struggles in life were well documented, but he always tried to fight through them and I will always respect that. My thoughts and prayers go out wife Cindy and his family. — Brian Cashman

The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him. — Katherine Howe

Over the decade that movie producer Menahem Golan had retained the rights for Spider-Man, he'd managed to involve half a dozen different corporate entities. Golan had originally bought the Spider-Man rights for his Cannon Films; after leaving Cannon, he transferred them to 21st Century Films. Next, he raised money by preselling television rights to Viacom, and home video rights to Columbia Tri-Star; then he signed a $5 million deal with Carolco that guaranteed his role as producer. But after Carolco assigned the film to James Cameron, Cameron refused to give Golan the producer credit, and the lawsuits began. By the end of 1994, Carolco was suing Viacom and Tri-Star; Viacom and Tri-Star were countersuing Carolco, 21st Century, and Marvel; and MGM - which had swallowed Cannon - was suing Viacom, Tri-Star, 21st Century, and Marvel. — Sean Howe

You know what Gordie Howe got for a signing bonus? A team jacket! — Ed Lauter

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. — E.W. Howe

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured. — Julia Ward Howe

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ... — Julia Ward Howe

Who do you see
when you think of you?
Are you an outsider,
Cool, distant, angry,
swimming against the current,
or are you in the flow?
When they tell you,
This is who you are,
do you say yes or no?
Who do you see
when you look beyond
the skin and the surface,
when you drift to sleep,
when you are the person
no one else knows? Who
are you on the inside?
Don't answer these questions.
Not yet. First, open your eyes,
your mind, your heart.
See. — James Howe

Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.' — Chris Squire

Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry. — E.W. Howe

When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face. — E.W. Howe

Jesus, you love my children more than I ever will, so by faith I give them and their choices to you. Please infuse your Holy Spirit-guided thoughts into every decision they make, and bless them for each one they make in obedience to you. When they don't obey you, Lord, then I relinquish them to you once again to steer them back to you in your way and in your time. Amen. — Michele Howe

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. — Gilbert White

We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us. — Fanny Howe

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. — E.W. Howe

My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem ... a little crazy to you. — Stephenie Meyer

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox. — E.W. Howe

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep — Edgar Watson Howe

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. — E.W. Howe

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice. — Irving Howe

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition. — E.W. Howe

Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1.
-Duncan Howe — Ann Brashares

To be an ideal guest, stay at home. — E.W. Howe

When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinking about significance. Significance only comes when you look back at your life. — James Howe

My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me. — Julia Ward Howe

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community. — Julia Ward Howe

These are the rules of big business ... Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics ... — Frederic C. Howe

I want to take the word Christianity back to Christ himself, back to that mighty heart whose pulse seems to throb through the world to-day, that endless fountain of charity out of which I believe has come all true progress and all civilization that deserves the name .. I go back to that great Spirit which contemplated a sacrifice for the whole of humanity. That sacrifice is not one of exclusion, but of an infinite and endless and joyous inclusion. And I thank God for it. — Julia Ward Howe

I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued. — Julia Ward Howe

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. — E.W. Howe

Who do you see
when you look at them?
You know the ones I mean:

the others, the olders,
the youngers, the ones
who are not you, not

like you or your friends,
who wear the labels
you give them until

they give them back,
saying, I believe these
belong to you. — James Howe

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers
up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its
greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual
references to the sacrifices and glories of the past. — Joseph Howe

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. — 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

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. — E.W. Howe

Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled / among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life. — Marie Howe

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty. — E.W. Howe

My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far. — Fanny Howe

Abusing the prosperous in order to curry the favor of the envious, is an old game that still works better than it should. — Edgar Watson Howe

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. — E.W. Howe

I like not thinking when I am working. I thrive on that feeling of attempting to move on total instinct and inner feelings ... that to me is "soul"; soul music. Almost everyone else uses a great deal of thought processes ... they are idea men. — Howe Gelb

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him. — E.W. Howe

We tell each other stories to help each other live. That's why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That's why I went to poetry in the first place, that's why I stay with it, that's why I'll never leave it. — Marie Howe