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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land.
A Message to Garcia (1899)
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
Would you make men better — set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
The Better Part (1901)
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
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.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
"Should we have an Eleventh Commandment?" asked a youth of the Greatest Living Actress. "Most assuredly, no - we have ten too many now!" answered the divine Sara.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.