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Famous Elbert Hubbard Quotes
“A creed is an ossified metaphor.”
“Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.”
“Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.”
“What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.”
“When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.”
“There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.”
“Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.”
“To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .”
“Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.”
“Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.”
“An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right”
“I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.”
“The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.”
“Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.”
“The more one knows, the more one simplifies.”
“Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked”
“Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.”
“Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.”
“I believe in the Motherhood of God.”
“If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.”