Edgar Watson Howe

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

—Edgar Watson Howe

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

—Edgar Watson Howe

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

—Edgar Watson Howe

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

—Edgar Watson Howe

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

—Edgar Watson Howe

A poem is no place for an idea.

—Edgar Watson Howe

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

—Edgar Watson Howe

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

—Edgar Watson Howe