Elbert Hubbard citations célèbres
Elbert Hubbard: Citations en anglais
“An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.”
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 11.
An American Bible (1918) edited by Alice Hubbard.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 61.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
“The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.”
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
answered the divine Sara.
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 17.
“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
“It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P. S.: I never inherited any money.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 64.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 170.
“Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 14.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 160.
“The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.
The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=AoxHAAAAYAAJ&q="Philosophy+rests+on+a+proposition+that+whatever+is+is+right+preaching+begins+by+assuming+that+whatever+is+is+wrong"&pg=PA130#v=onepage (October 1897).
“Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.”
The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=Y4lHAAAAYAAJ&q="Piety+is+the+tin-foil+of+pretense"&pg=RA1-PA115#v=onepage (September 1908).
“Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.”
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
"The Sea" in The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard (1916), p. 169.
“Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.”
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
“The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.”
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
“Life is a compromise between fate and free will.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 36
“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 142.
“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.”
The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=b0kLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+graveyards+are+full+of+people+the+world+could+not+do+without%22&pg=PA190#v=onepage (May 1907)