Quote #25
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear. [Pg. 142.]
More from Elbert Hubbard
- The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
- The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over.
- 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…
- To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise-and no faculty g…
- There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
- When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say 'Canary!'-he'll take offense. [Pg. 159.]