Elbert Hubbard

US author (1856 - 1915)

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

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

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.

Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

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... until death do them join.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

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

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.