Elbert Hubbard quotes - page 4

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. (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
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
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Elbert Hubbard
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
Elbert Hubbard
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
Elbert Hubbard
It is only life and love that give love and life.
Elbert 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.
Elbert Hubbard
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
Elbert Hubbard
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert Hubbard
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization. (Elbert Hubbard)
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
Elbert Hubbard
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
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
Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
Elbert Hubbard
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
Elbert Hubbard
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
Experience is the name everyone gives his mistakes.
Elbert Hubbard
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.
Elbert Hubbard
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
Elbert Hubbard
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid. (Elbert Hubbard)
When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say "Canary!" - he'll take offense.
Elbert Hubbard
Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. 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."
Elbert Hubbard
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
Elbert Hubbard
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard