Quote

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

Elbert Hubbard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
Publisher
Writer
Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
Success
Preacher
Business
Orthodox
Cat
Dog
Career
Careers
Asbestos
Hell
Celluloid
Successful
Chasing

More quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Image
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Every life is its own excuse for being.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
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
Image
The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
Elbert Hubbard