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Edgar Watson Howe:No man's credit is as good as


No man's credit is as good as his money.
by Edgar Watson Howe


Edgar Watson Howe:For every quarrel a man and


For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
by Edgar Watson Howe


Edgar Watson Howe:People have discovered that


People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
by Edgar Watson Howe


Edgar Watson Howe:I think that I am better than


I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
by Edgar Watson Howe


Edgar Watson Howe:A man is usually more careful


A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
by Edgar Watson Howe


Edgar Watson Howe:When a man says money can do


When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
by Edgar Watson Howe


Bertrand Russell:Much that passes as idealism is


Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
by Bertrand Russell


Edgar Watson Howe:So long as we do not blow our


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


Sen. Russell Long:Don't tax me, don't tax thee,


Don't tax me, don't tax thee, tax the man behind the tree!
by Sen. Russell Long


James Russell Lowell:Let us be of good cheer,


Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
by James Russell Lowell


James Russell Lowell:He who is firmly seated in


He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
by James Russell Lowell


Bertrand Russell:Conventional people are roused


Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
by Bertrand Russell


Bertrand Russell:Freedom of opinion can only


Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
by Bertrand Russell


Bertrand Russell:Man needs, for his happiness,


Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
by Bertrand Russell


Bertrand Russell:Italy, and the spring and first


Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
by Bertrand Russell


James Russell Lowell:Every man feels


Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
by James Russell Lowell


James Russell Lowell:We look at death through


We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
by James Russell Lowell


Bertrand Russell:Change is one thing, progress


Change is one thing, progress is another. “Change” is scientific, “progress” is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
by Bertrand Russell


Bertrand Russell:If all our happiness is bound


If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
by Bertrand Russell


Bertrand Russell:Marriage is for women the


Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
by Bertrand Russell


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