„Non prendere la vita troppo sul serio, tanto non ne uscirai vivo.“
A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
Variante: Non prendere la vita troppo seriamente; non ne uscirai comunque vivo.
Data di nascita: 19. Giugno 1856
Data di morte: 7. Maggio 1915
Altri nomi: Elbert Green Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbard è stato uno scrittore, filosofo e artista statunitense.
„Non prendere la vita troppo sul serio, tanto non ne uscirai vivo.“
A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
Variante: Non prendere la vita troppo seriamente; non ne uscirai comunque vivo.
„Un amico è qualcuno che ti conosce completamente e ancora ti piace.“
Note Book of Elbert Hubbard - Pagina 112, Elbert Hubbard - Kessinger Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0766104168
trascrizione approssimativa
citato in Dale Carnagie, Come trattare gli altri e farseli amici, traduzione di M. Marazza, Bompiani, 2001
„Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.“
Variante: A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Origine: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 112.
„Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.“
Origine: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 74
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters (1899), p. 186.
Contesto: Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
„The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.“
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
Variante: The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
„Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.“
The Motto Book (1907).
Variante: Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
„Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.“
John North Willys (as reprinted in Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 2 (1998), pp. 331–337, Roycrofters, 1922).
Pamphlets
Origine: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Origine: The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days