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
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Men are only as great as they are kind.