Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.
Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join.
As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.