Quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
- Elbert Hubbard
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
- Elbert Hubbard
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
- Elbert Hubbard
Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.
- Elbert Hubbard
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
- Elbert Hubbard
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.
- Elbert Hubbard
Men are only as great as they are kind.
- Elbert Hubbard
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
- Elbert Hubbard
All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
- Elbert Hubbard
DEATH... To stop sinning suddenly.
- Elbert Hubbard
He is an educated man in the best sense of the word — mindful always that there is no such thing as complete education. We are always going to school, and success consists in striving eternally, but never arriving.
- Elbert Hubbard
History is but a collection of epitaphs.
- Elbert Hubbard