Elbert Green Hubbard Quotes

...one grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is in her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one. And if he can 'defeat with great slaughter' his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.

The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.

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

The typical accountant is a man, past middle age, spare, wrinkled, intelligent, cold, passive, non-committal, with eyes like a cod-fish; polite in contact but at the same time unresponsive, calm and damnably composed as a concrete post or a plaster of Paris cast; a petrification with a heart of feldspar and without charm of the friendly germ, minus bowels, passion or a sense of humor. Happily they never reproduce and all of them finally go to Hell.

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

The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it...

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

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

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.

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.

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.

The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.

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

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

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