Elbert Hubbard Quotes

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.