A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

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

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Elbert Hubbard

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Elbert Hubbard

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard


Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Elbert Hubbard

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
Elbert Hubbard

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
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

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