Elbert Cox Quotes & Sayings

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author. — Elbert Hubbard

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. — Elbert Hubbard

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish. — Elbert Hubbard

Grammar is the grave of letters. — Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself. — Elbert Hubbard

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done. — Elbert Hubbard

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity. — Elbert Hubbard

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously — Elbert Hubbard

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me. — Elbert Hubbard

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

Success consists in the climb. — Elbert Hubbard

The horrifying sound of breaking glass, and a thunderous tirade of splintering pieces hitting the floor, stunned them all. Tobin spun around in shock. The massive Travelling Mirror, through which Tobin and Murphy had so recently arrived, shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces, cascading down the wall, and onto the floor in an enormous pile of jagged edges. The hall was still as everyone stared at the shattered mirror in shocked silence.
"Oh dear. Oh dear, dear, dear," whispered Elbert. — R.S. Mollison-Read

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident. — Elbert Hubbard

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 secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy. — Elbert Hubbard

Habit is a form of exercise. — Elbert Hubbard

A creed is an ossified metaphor. — Elbert Hubbard

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. — Elbert Hubbard

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. — Elbert Hubbard

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. — Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard

The man who has no problems is out of the game. — Elbert Hubbard

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors — Elbert Hubbard

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. — Elbert Hubbard

History: gossip well told. — Elbert Hubbard

Real life is in love, laughter, and work. — Elbert Hubbard

Positive anything is better than negative nothing. — Elbert Hubbard

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

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. — Elbert Hubbard

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. — Elbert Hubbard