Elbert Hubbard

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Work and Recreation

A friend is someone who knows all about you and and still likes you.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Love and Hate

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Men and Women and  Vice and Virtue

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Altruism and Cynicism

Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Life and Death

If a feller says, "It's not the money, it's the principle of the thing," it's the money.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Altruism and Cynicism

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Happiness and Misery

People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Work and Recreation

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Success and Failure

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Science and Religion and  Vice and Virtue

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Wisdom and Ignorance