Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

“Dear Playmate in the Kindergarten of God: Please do not take life quite so seriously — you surely will never get out of it alive. And as for your buying and selling, your churches and banks, your newspapers and books, they are really at the last of no more importance than the child's paper houses, red and blue wafers, and funny scissors things. Why you grown-ups! all your possessions are only just to keep you out of mischief, until Death, the good old nurse, comes and rocks you to sleep. Am I not right?... Take my word for it, Dear Playmate, this life is only a big joke. But we are here, and so let's have all the fun we can. And in order to get along best we should cut our scissors things as well as we can, and model only pretty toys out of the mud that is given us. It's all Kindergarten business though: the object is to teach us. I really believe we are leaning things... We are all children in the Kindergarten of God. Take my word for it, Playmate, and I know as much about God and his plans as any man who ever trod this green earth. I know as much as you, and you know as much as I, and we are both Sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be.”

“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

“Every man is a damn fool at least ten minutes a day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”