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Elbert Hubbard

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (55 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Work and Recreation

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (80 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Love and Hate

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (157 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Men and Women and [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (64 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (53 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Life and Death

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (49 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (55 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Happiness and Misery

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (43 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Work and Recreation

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (63 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Success and Failure

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (47 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Science and Religion and [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (86 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Elbert Hubbard, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

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