J. G. Hubbard Quotes

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

Grammar is the grave of letters.

You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

None but the brave can live with the fair.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you.

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now.

Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.

Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.