Quote

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

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
Little
Worth
Thing
College
Every
Education
Really
Wisdom
Men
Show
Shows
Order
Littles

More quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Image
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Every life is its own excuse for being.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Growth is often a painful process.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard