Edgar Watson Quotations

To know when to be generous and when firm -- this is wisdom.

There is only one thing to do for a man who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it

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

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live

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

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to have an early start

Any man who will look into his heart and honestly write what he sees there, will find plenty of readers.

A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact

There may be some doubt about hell beyond the grave but there is no doubt about there being one on this side of it

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.

Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease

It's no credit to anyone to work too hard

The few men who have managed to reach heaven must be terribly spoiled by this time

I never met a man so mean that I was not willing he should admire me.

The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone