Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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Life is just one damn thing after another.
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Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
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To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise - and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
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Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate - you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.
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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.
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And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.
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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.
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The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
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Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.
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Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.