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“If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.”

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

“Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, "I have done it."”

Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of His Flock http://books.google.com/books?id=4k8LAQAAIAAJ&q=%22we+are+moving+so+fast+that+when+plans+are+being+made+to+perform+some+great+feat+these+plans+are+broken+into+by+a+youth+who+enters+and+says+I+have+done+it%22&pg=PA178#v=onepage, The Philistine magazine, May 1913
As quoted in The Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951) by Evan Esar, p. 103
As quoted in More Random Walks In Science : An Anthology (1982) by Robert L. Weber, p. 109.
Вариант: The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Вариант: In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

“When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say "Canary!" — he'll take offense.”

Источник: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 159.

“An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.”

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

“Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.”

Источник: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 11.

“If we ever damned it will not be because we have loved too much, but because we have loved too little.”

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

“The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.”

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

“Should we have an Eleventh Commandment?" asked a youth of the Greatest Living Actress. "Most assuredly, no - we have ten too many now!”

answered the divine Sara.
Источник: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 17.