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Elbert Hubbard Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

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Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard

If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

If you can not answer a man's argument,
all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)

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

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

Friend Quotes and Sayings

The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips

When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)

Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

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