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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 (1856–1915) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface to Love Ballads of the Sixteenth Century (1897)
“Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters (1899), p. 186
“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.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Philistine magazine, August 1901
“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) first seen 1907 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Motto Book (1907)
“Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elbert Hubbard, in his essay on Booker T. Washington in Little Journeys For 1908, p. 21; Franklin D. Roosevelt later used this line on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation: "In the trues…
“Life is just one damn thing after another.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in Items of Interest, Vol. 33 (1911), p. 8; variant: "damned
“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 (1856–1915) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Philistine (May 1913)
“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 (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sea" in The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard (1916), p. 169
“Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An American Bible (1918) edited by Alice Hubbard
“Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John North Willys", in Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 2 (1922), p. 335
“Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: J.B. Runs Things," Short Stories and Index: Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 14 (1923), p. 278
Also quoted by: Tom Stoppard (misattributed)
“He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1922) p. 237
“If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Note Book (1927)
“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 (1856–1915) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of His Flock, The Philistine magazine, May 1913
“Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Philistine (October 1897)
“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) first seen 1907 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Philistine (May 1907)
“Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Philistine (September 1908)
“The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing — "Carry a message to Garcia!”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself. Prizefighters die young, gourmands get the gout, hate hurts worse the man who nurses it, and all selfishness robs the mind of its divine insight, and cheats the soul that would know. Mind alone is eternal. He, watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps. My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we ever damned it will not be because we have loved too much, but because we have loved too little.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every spirit makes his own house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is a compromise between fate and free will.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in The Note Book, Kessinger Publishing (reprint 1998) , 9780766104167
“It is only life and love that give love and life.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source