Elbert Hubbard Quotes
An American writer and editor.
(1856 - 1915)
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
[Conservatism]
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
[Able]
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
[Friendship]
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A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
[Family]
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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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A Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
[Miracles]
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
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An editor - a person employed on 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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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
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Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village-in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly-the man who can "Carry a Message to Garcia."
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
[Art]
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
[Art]
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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.
[Clergyman]
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
[Mornings]
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