Элберт Грин Хаббард: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 6)

Элберт Грин Хаббард было американский писатель, философ, издатель, художник. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”

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

“It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P. S.: I never inherited any money.”

Источник: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.

“Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.”

Источник: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 14.

“Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.”

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

“The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.”

Источник: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.

“Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.”

The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=AoxHAAAAYAAJ&q="Philosophy+rests+on+a+proposition+that+whatever+is+is+right+preaching+begins+by+assuming+that+whatever+is+is+wrong"&pg=PA130#v=onepage (October 1897).

“Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.”

The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=Y4lHAAAAYAAJ&q="Piety+is+the+tin-foil+of+pretense"&pg=RA1-PA115#v=onepage (September 1908).

“Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.”

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

“Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.”

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

“Life is a compromise between fate and free will.”

Источник: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 36

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.”

The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=b0kLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+graveyards+are+full+of+people+the+world+could+not+do+without%22&pg=PA190#v=onepage (May 1907)