Quote #19
Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one
More from Elbert Hubbard
- Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
- Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
- 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 qu…
- There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
- Making men live in three worlds at once-past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
- The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The t…
- 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…
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.