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Elbert Green Hubbard

1856-1915. American writer.

1. "We work to become, not to acquire."

categories: Work and Laziness

2. "To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over."

source: "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

categories: Nature and Animals

3. "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

categories: Various

4. "The vintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that life is love, laughter, and work."

categories: Life and Death -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

5. "The love we give away is the only love we keep."

categories: Love

6. "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."

source: "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

categories: Envy -:- Forgiveness

7. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

source: "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

categories: Defeates and Mistakes

8. "The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion."

categories: Various

9. "Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it."

categories: Marriage

10. "Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one."

source: "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

categories: Various

11. "Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes."

categories: Various

12. "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary person."

categories: Science and Technology -:- Work and Laziness

13. "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

categories: Various -:- Work and Laziness

14. "Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Marriage

15. "Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

categories: Friendship and Hostility

16. "Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments."

source: "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

categories: Art and Culture

17. "Life is just one damned thing after another."

categories: Life and Death

18. "It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

categories: Talent and Genius

19. "Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Intellect, Judgement

20. "If you suffer, thank God! - it is a sure sign that you are alive."

categories: Pain and Tears

21. "I believe that the best way to prepare fore for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can."

categories: Manners and Ethics

22. "I believe in the paradox of success through failure."

categories: Success and Fame

23. "He who doesn't understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

categories: Oration and Silence

24. "God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars."

categories: God and Religion

25. "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Talent and Genius

26. "Folks who never do any more than they are paid for will never get paid for any more than they do."

categories: Richness and Money -:- Work and Laziness

27. "Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth."

categories: Education

28. "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

29. "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."

categories: Various

30. "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive."

categories: Life and Death

31. "College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture."

categories: Education

32. "Art is not a thing; it is a way."

categories: Art and Culture

33. "An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."

categories: Loyalty and Betrayal

34. "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."

categories: Education

35. "A retentative memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."

categories: Memory -:- Talent and Genius

36. "A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist."

categories: Optimism and Hope

37. "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

categories: Friendship and Hostility


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