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Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
Elbert Hubbard -
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
Elbert Hubbard
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
Elbert Hubbard -
Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.
Elbert Hubbard -
Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
Elbert Hubbard -
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard -
Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.
Elbert Hubbard -
Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
Elbert Hubbard
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Most Authors cringe and flatter and Fish for compliments. If they fail to get Applause, they say the World is a Scurvy Place and those who dwell therein a Dirty Lot: if they succeed, they give thanks to Nobody, saying they got only what their Meritt entitles them to. But I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
Elbert Hubbard -
The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.
Elbert Hubbard -
'Should we have an Eleventh Commandment?' asked a youth of the Greatest Living Actress. 'Most assuredly, no - we have ten too many now!' answered the divine Sara.
Elbert Hubbard -
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.
Elbert Hubbard -
He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.
Elbert Hubbard -
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
Elbert Hubbard
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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.
Elbert Hubbard -
Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, 'I have done it.'
Elbert Hubbard