Famous Quotes / Elbert Hubbard
193 Quotations by Elbert Hubbard
- 1. A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
- 2. A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- 3. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
- 4. A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
- 5. A friend is a person who knows all about you--and still likes you.
- 6. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
- 7. A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
- 8. A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or ...
- 9. A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and ...
- 10. A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
- 11. A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
- 12. A person born with an instinct for poverty.
- 13. A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
- 14. A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
- 15. A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
- 16. A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives w ...
- 17. A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatnesst.
- 18. All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak ...
- 19. Allow motion to equal emotion.
- 20. An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.