Elbert Green Hubbard Quotes

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)

Happiness is a habit — cultivate it.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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

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.

Who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

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

Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token