Joseph Howe quote: "My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?"

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Br...
JOSEPH HOWE

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty ...
JOSEPH HOWE

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their langu...
JOSEPH HOWE

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
JOSEPH HOWE

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty ...
JOSEPH HOWE

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dar...
JOSEPH HOWE

Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for...
JOSEPH HOWE

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of...
IRVING HOWE

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
IRVING HOWE

In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russi...
FANNY HOWE

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th...
JAMES HOWE

I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good s...
FANNY HOWE

My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the post...
FANNY HOWE

If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A reco...
FANNY HOWE

I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stan...
FANNY HOWE

I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it ...
GORDIE HOWE

Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie T...
JAMES HOWE

Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie, ...
JAMES HOWE

Anyway, I do not want you thinking that I or Addie or Joe or Skeezie feel sorry for ourselves. We do...
JAMES HOWE

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
NATHANIEL HOWE

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know ...
GORDIE HOWE

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...
JOHN HOWE

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness ...
GORDIE HOWE

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
NATHANIEL HOWE

You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.
ED HOWE

No man's credit is as good as his money.
ED HOWE

I believe in grumbling it is the politest form of fighting known.
ED HOWE

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
ED HOWE

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
ED HOWE

When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
ED HOWE

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
ED HOWE

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. See our art...
ED HOWE

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enou...
ED HOWE

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

But now, before that new birth take place in the spirit of man, it wants, but knows not what, craves...
JOHN HOWE

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
ED HOWE

Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other.
ED HOWE

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the s...
GORDIE HOWE

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know ...
GORDIE HOWE

More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is ...
JOHN HOWE

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
ED HOWE

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
ED HOWE

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
ED HOWE

Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.
ED HOWE

We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.
ED HOWE

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we n...
ED HOWE

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
ED HOWE

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you abo...
ED HOWE

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
ED HOWE

She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massin...
KATHERINE HOWE

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different po...
KATHERINE HOWE

But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.
KATHERINE HOWE

Marketing spending in the fourth quarter of 2005 was a precipitous drop from the two-year high of Q3...
CARL HOWE

DVDs are going to push them out of the way. And even DVDs themselves, I think are on their way to be...
CARL HOWE

There is no one left.
CARL HOWE

The Internet is a great public medium for exchanging information. But if you have information that y...
CARL HOWE

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.
CARL HOWE

I don't know [that] they're going to get it cheaper than free. The post office is not the place to l...
CARL HOWE

It's about not having to run wires into every room. It's about being able to bring in a little devic...
CARL HOWE

The whole idea of the 'X Internet' is that it has to be much more experiential. Now we have to creat...
CARL HOWE

It's a high-stakes game, and you can lose those bets.
CARL HOWE

If you're going to put information like that on the Web, you'll want to see if the service provides ...
CARL HOWE

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
JOHN HOWE

I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
E.W. HOWE

A thief believes everybody steals.
E.W. HOWE

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.
ED HOWE

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to thr...
JOHN HOWE

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
GORDIE HOWE

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
GORDIE HOWE

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
ED HOWE

A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
ED HOWE

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
ED HOWE

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read childr...
JAMES HOWE

Luckily, I did and I managed to pull clear of Theo and George on my way to the chequered flag. I fee...
DAVID HOWE

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.
GORDIE HOWE

...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually t...
KATHERINE HOWE

Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official...
IRVING HOWE

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator ...
JOHN HOWE

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration ...
JOHN HOWE

Start with familiar fairy tales or Bible stories or old folk tales or ancient myths and legends. You...
PRISCILLA HOWE

Would I be out of line if I said amen to that? I agree with them wholeheartedly.
DAVID HOWE

There's a learning curve, but we just have to be patient. You can't expect three hits a night right ...
ART HOWE

The kid, he just looked to me like he was ready. It was time to start playing. He put his game face ...
ART HOWE

Who are you going to walk to get to anybody else?
ART HOWE

He just hasn't made enough progress to think that he's going to be better by the beginning of next w...
ART HOWE

You walk around and see people studying their phones like religious documents, ... It's not hard to ...
ART HOWE

[Two of the people thought to be at or near the top of the Pirates' wish list to succeed Lloyd McCle...
ART HOWE

I would hope they have interest in me -- as I do in them. It's nice to hear [his name being mentione...
ART HOWE

I knew they were ready to take the next step, ... I told Drayton that.
ART HOWE

It could be a good situation for everybody,
ART HOWE

Interesting, ... I learned they don't rebuild in New York.
ART HOWE

It was the week of the sectional, so we were fired up all week to practice hard and fix all the litt...
ANDREW HOWE

We're on the way up. I want to win (the state title). I won't accept anything else.
ANDREW HOWE

I'm just taking it one match at a time. He's on my mind, but I don't try to focus on another individ...
ANDREW HOWE

Age has nothing to do with it. Heck, I played until I was 52 so I could play with my sons, Mark and ...
GORDIE HOWE

Some players may have had a drink too many the night before the game. I didn't have that problem bec...
GORDIE HOWE

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they've never had, and never will ...
E.W. HOWE

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones
NATHANIEL HOWE

The Bond Between
Cousins Cannot
Be Broken!
LYDIA HOWE

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centre...
GORDIE HOWE

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
IRVING HOWE

The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.
GORDIE HOWE

There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why play...
GORDIE HOWE

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.
JAMES HOWE

We were dealing with the emergencies of pain control, all her treatment, ... I was working a full-ti...
JAMES HOWE

Eclectic means you can put anything together as long as it's expensive.
CHAUNCEY HOWE

We want the morning show to be at least as good, if not better, than the radio station. The morning ...
DON HOWE

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks...
KATHERINE HOWE

Just because you don't believe it[] [...]doesn't mean that it's not true.
KATHERINE HOWE

Remember, cousins are forever!
LYDIA HOWE

I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was anoth...
JAMES HOWE

The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so ...
KATHERINE HOWE

But an attentive researcher--like you--might be able to see something that all the experts can't see...
KATHERINE HOWE

Il est bon à savoir. It is good to know.
KATHERINE HOWE

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
E.W. HOWE

She immediately stopped. It was her and that little child there alone.
JOHN HOWE

We came into this thing late. I would have pursued it if I had time.
JOHN HOWE

But the more you get into this, the more ominous you see it.
JOHN HOWE

Attracting top-notch talent is key in continuing to deliver superior returns for our investors. Both...
JOHN HOWE

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing ...
JOHN HOWE

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
HAROLD HOWE

When I played in Detroit on a line with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay, we got used to each other, but it ...
GORDIE HOWE

We've doubled up at some of the lifeguard towers here, down in the Waikiki area, and we've also brou...
JIM HOWE

Ultimately, it should improve reliability, stability and accuracy for many people who use GPS for ti...
DAVID HOWE

Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a ter...
JAMES HOWE

The programs that were overturned usually were not providing adequate incentives. Those programs tha...
MICHAEL HOWE

Harold (about max): he looks kinda like a football couch
Chester (sarcastically): Yay team rah...
JAMES HOWE

When you enjoy doing something it no longer feels like a task but an essential aspiration.
RYAN HOWE

I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my...
JOHN HOWE

The decision was a positive decision for everybody for the event to move. It's almost like watching ...
DESI HOWE

The parties all sat down, and at the end of the day we all agreed the best thing to do would be to p...
DESI HOWE

It's going to give us more flexibility. You come to La Costa and you're at a world-class place. The ...
DESI HOWE

It's been a good run. It's been a pleasure to host such a great event for the time that we did. (The...
DESI HOWE

The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year.
DON HOWE

We've been able to bring Chattanooga more convenience for physical therapy, ... Before we got starte...
DON HOWE

We'd had a quiet week that week,
DON HOWE

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.
DON HOWE

And with an photo album, you're not able to write (alongside the photo) and tell the story behind th...
IRENE HOWE

Oh," I say. I have run out of dialogue. Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there as a...
JAMES HOWE

Because when you get down to it, thinking of somebody as 100% human seriously gets in the way of hat...
JAMES HOWE

They're really into it, laughing and teasing each other, and I am looking at Pam and thinking once a...
JAMES HOWE

Joe: Oo, Brittany "Aren't I Fabulous?" Hobson?
Addie: She's not that bad.
Joe: Brittany "A...
JAMES HOWE

It doesn't matter how many times I've been called a name, it still hurts - and it still always comes...
JAMES HOWE

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?
JAMES HOWE

I am about to stop being a get-along kind of guy and turn into somebody who makes a difference.
JAMES HOWE

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to s...
JAMES HOWE

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're try...
JAMES HOWE

The point is that being a minority isn't only about the color of your skin or your religion. it's ab...
JAMES HOWE

When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinkin...
JAMES HOWE

When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world ...
JAMES HOWE

Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed...
JAMES HOWE

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable.
JAMES HOWE

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. ...
JAMES HOWE

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're try...
JAMES HOWE

This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you ...
JAMES HOWE

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.
JAMES HOWE

Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think ...
JAMES HOWE

I was having a bit of trouble with my gating throughout the meeting,
DAVID HOWE

I am always pleased with Maria. She is a player that works extremely hard. She never stops working. ...
JESSICA HOWE

People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.
GORDIE HOWE

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, b...
GORDIE HOWE

Now faith is not what we
hereafter have we have a
world resting on nothing

Rest...
SUSAN HOWE

We were strong on floor, and I think that gave us some momentum going over to vault. Having those tw...
ERIC HOWE

I am so proud. I think we performed just awesome all day long. When you're so close there are always...
ERIC HOWE

I think what makes a strong team is being able to have a group of girls where maybe not one of them ...
ERIC HOWE

There's something to be said for walking into the school and seeing pictures of past gymnasts. Those...
ERIC HOWE

Between 1983 and the time I took over, you wouldn't have found the clubs surrounding our neck of the...
ERIC HOWE

I think it's a very healthy relationship. The club (Wright's American Gymnastics in Greenwood) and h...
ERIC HOWE

the awareness of time passing and where you go and what happens in life in 20 years.
JAMES HOWE

He's just amazing, ... When your books are put into any other medium, you don't know what's going to...
JAMES HOWE

I'm very happy with the effort, ... We started passing better and are starting to show some good sha...
JAMES HOWE

As soon as I get a free day, I get my stuff out. I'm in heaven when I can do that.
IRENE HOWE

He's one of the best artists we could have gotten. All students can relate to his music, and he pers...
LUKE HOWE

But we cannot support a group that has not been upright with us. We need honesty to have dialogue.
LUKE HOWE

I don't support sexism.
LUKE HOWE

It takes a lot of groundwork that may have been laid last semester and hopefully we'll see progress ...
LUKE HOWE

It's our responsibility to support them and what they do.
LUKE HOWE

I know we worked very hard, starting all the way back on June 1, but it just fell through for a vari...
LUKE HOWE

I am who I say I am,
I'm not some fantasy
of how you think you think you know
or who ...
JAMES HOWE

It won't be too long before Liz gets on the team as well.
KYM HOWE

To see her as a kid playing around and then to see her train - you just knew she was going to be a g...
KYM HOWE

...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to wh...
DARCUS HOWE

Schools eventually have to open back up for classes and civic centers have scheduled events. The goo...
LAURA HOWE

They are not a substitute for knowing how to swim.
LAURA HOWE

We're seeing people from all walks of life -- those who didn't have resources before the storm and t...
LAURA HOWE

I think everyone right now figures that these people are going to transition into long-term housing....
LAURA HOWE

We have the capacity to open dozens and dozens of shelters in south Florida if the need arises.
LAURA HOWE

I want them "dunked"-plunged deeply into life, brought up gasping and dripping, and returned to us h...
REUEL HOWE

We used to tell people suffering from cancer to rest.
NANCY HOWE

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
E. W. 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 th...
E. W. HOWE

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertisi...
E. W. HOWE

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums wo...
E. W. HOWE

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
E. W. HOWE

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
E. W. HOWE

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

The most destructive criticism is indifference.
E. W. HOWE

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found t...
E. W. HOWE

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling i...
E. W. HOWE

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

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

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Joseph Howe

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

Joseph Howe

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