Quote #17

Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication. [Pg. 159.]

More from Elbert Hubbard

  1. Making men live in three worlds at once-past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
  2. Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
  3. Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the p…
  4. Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one
  5. Life without absorbing occupation is hell-joy consists in forgetting life.
  6. Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
  7. It is only life and love that give love and life. [Pg. 40.]
  8. There is no such thing as success in a bad business.

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