„Una teoria non ha più attinenza con un fatto di quanta non ne abbia una foto con la persona fotografata.“
— E. W. Howe
citato in Focus, n. 117, pag. 183
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E. W. Howe
Data di nascita: 3. Maggio 1853
Data di morte: 3. Ottobre 1937
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Edgar Watson Howe , scrittore ed editore statunitense.
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„Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.“
— E. W. Howe
The Story of a Country Town, Chapter 30 http://books.google.com/books?id=rbwEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Men+are+virtuous+because+the+women+are+women%22+%22virtuous+from+necessity%22&pg=PA353#v=onepage (1883).
Pubblicità
„No man knows where his business ends and his neighbor's begins.“
— E. W. Howe
Country Town Sayings (1911), p55.
„So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.“
— E. W. Howe
Country Town Sayings (1911), p28.
„I know what women expect, and give it to them without disagreeable argument; they'll get it anyway.“
— E. W. Howe
Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p35.
„When you hear that a certain man is so good that he wants to help everybody, you may depend upon it that he started the story.“
— E. W. Howe
Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p55.
„A loafer never works except when there's a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.“
— E. W. Howe
Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p171.
„The trouble in the world is nearly all due to the fact that one-half of the people are men, and the other half women.“
— E. W. Howe
Country Town Sayings (1911), p193.
Pubblicità
„A man needs a friend not to flatter him, but to strengthen him at his weak points.“
— E. W. Howe
Country Town Sayings [An anthology of witty sentences by the author] (1911), p81.
„To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.“
— E. W. Howe
Country Town Sayings (1911), p32.
„When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.“
— E. W. Howe
Travel Letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa (1913), p120.
„Automobiles are like people: the cheap ones are noisy.“
— E. W. Howe
Country Town Sayings (1911), p201.
Pubblicità
„I have noticed that my likes and dislikes do not create any great excitement. And how people try to get away when I attempt to talk!“
— E. W. Howe
E.W. Howe's Monthly January, 1912.
„No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.“
— E. W. Howe
Country Town Sayings (1911), p62.
„Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.“
— E. W. Howe
Country Town Sayings (1911), p20.
