Elbert Hubbard ( 1856~1915 )
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The love we give away is the only love we keep
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Never explain; your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.
Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more that they do.
To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive.
Live truth instead of professing it.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
Death: To stop sinning suddenly.
The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other...util death do them join.