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“Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

Life , Hell , Joy , Forgetting

“If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

Religion , Change

“Making men live in three worlds at once — past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

Men , World , Religion , Past

“Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

Time , Dead

“Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

Parting

“Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, "I have done it."”

Elbert Hubbard

Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of His Flock http://books.google.com/books?id=4k8LAQAAIAAJ&q=%22we+are+moving+so+fast+that+when+plans+are+being+made+to+perform+some+great+feat+these+plans+are+broken+into+by+a+youth+who+enters+and+says+I+have+done+it%22&pg=PA178#v=onepage, The Philistine magazine, May 1913
As quoted in The Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951) by Evan Esar, p. 103
As quoted in More Random Walks In Science : An Anthology (1982) by Robert L. Weber, p. 109.
Variant: The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Variant: In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Youth

“When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say "Canary!" — he'll take offense.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 159.

“Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 54.

Women , Marriage , World , Dead

“Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

Death , Men , Fate , Wealth

“An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

Idea

“Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 11.

Love , People , Sex , Reading

“Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

“Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.”

Elbert Hubbard

An American Bible (1918) edited by Alice Hubbard.

Hate , Forgiveness

“The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 61.

Life , Training

“If we ever damned it will not be because we have loved too much, but because we have loved too little.”

Elbert Hubbard

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

Love

“If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Note Book (1927).

Business , Time

“The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.”

Elbert Hubbard

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

Sadness

“Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

Truth

“Should we have an Eleventh Commandment?" asked a youth of the Greatest Living Actress. "Most assuredly, no - we have ten too many now!”

Elbert Hubbard

answered the divine Sara.
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 17.

Youth