Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbardwas an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Presently Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 June 1859
CountryUnited States of America
Elbert Hubbard quotes about
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.
Real life is in love, laughter, and work.
Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?
If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
God is good, there is no devil but fear.
No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.
Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done 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.