Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

The cure for grief is motion.

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

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.

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

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

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

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.

Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.

History: gossip well told.