Elbert Green Hubbard Quotes

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.

There is no such thing as success in a bad business.

Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

When life hands you lemons make lemonade !

After my cancer diagnosis this became my Moto and it got me though the worst of it! I came out ahead cancer free for five years so far !!!!!

Life is unrest, and its passage at best a zigzag course, that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the years.

Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.

The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.

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

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