J. G. Hubbard Quotes

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Live truth instead of professing it.

I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

All the happiness you ever find lies in you.

Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled.

There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.