Elbert Hubbard quotes

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. (Elbert Hubbard)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. (Elbert Hubbard)
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard
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
If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
Elbert Hubbard
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
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.
Elbert Hubbard
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. (Elbert Hubbard)
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert Hubbard
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard