Elbert Green Hubbard Quotes

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

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain.

Work to become, not to acquire.

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.

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.

"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.

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

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

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

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

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

Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.