Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
ELBERT HUBBARDAcademic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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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.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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