Quote

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

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
Enjoyed
Vicariously
Gossip
Vice
Vices

More quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Image
Growth is often a painful process.
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
Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
I believe the Universe is planned for good.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
Elbert Hubbard
Image
I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Postponement: The father of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
Elbert Hubbard