Elbert Hubbard
87 quotations
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
Laughter is higher than all pain.
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
The cheerful loser is the winner.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Luck is tenacity of purpose.
Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
Play needs direction as well as work.
A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.