Perfume: any smell that is used to drown out a worse one. – Elbert Hubbard
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. – Elbert Hubbard
Perfume: any smell that is used to drown out a worse one. – Elbert Hubbard
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. – Elbert Hubbard
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares. – Elbert Hubbard
Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877