Thursday, March 28, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)


American writer, publisher, artist, businessman, anarchist and libertarian socialist philosopher.
Elbert Hubbard
Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
Hubbard quotes
If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.
Hubbard
I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.




Hubbard Elbert quotes
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Hubbard Elbert
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard quotes
Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
Elbert Hubbard
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.
Hubbard Elbert quotes
Life is just one damn thing after another.
Hubbard
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.
Hubbard Elbert
It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity — of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
Elbert Hubbard
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.




Elbert Hubbard quotes
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
There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
Hubbard quotes
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.
Hubbard Elbert
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
Hubbard Elbert quotes
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
Elbert Hubbard
It is only life and love that give love and life.
Elbert Hubbard quotes
I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish, but this much I will say: The distinctively modern custom of marital bundling is the doom of chivalry and death of passion. It wears all tender sentiment to a napless warp, and no wonder is it that the novelist, without he has a seared and bitter heart, hesitates to follow the couple beyond the church door. There is no greater reproach to our civilization than the sight of men joking the boy whose heart is pierced by the first rays of a life-giving sun, or of our expecting a girl to blush because she is twice God's child today she was yesterday.
Elbert Hubbard
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.
Hubbard Elbert
When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say "Canary!" — he'll take offense.


© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact