Elbert Green Hubbard

"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Happiness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Various

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Life and Death

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

Various

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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 Green Hubbard

Various

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Love

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Richness and Money

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Defeates and Mistakes

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

God and Religion

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Education

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Talent and Genius

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Pain and Tears

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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."

Elbert Green Hubbard "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Defeates and Mistakes

Marriage

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Various

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Education

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Talent and Genius

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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."

Elbert Green Hubbard "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

Envy

Forgiveness

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Marriage

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We work to become, not to acquire."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Science and Technology

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Loyalty and Betrayal

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Education

Sports

Rating: 7.11 (Number of Voters: 9)

"Life is just one damned thing after another."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Life and Death

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Memory

Talent and Genius

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)