Elbert Cox Quotes

#1. Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

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#2. Grammar is the grave of letters.

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

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#4. I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

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#5. The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

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#6. Art is not a thing; it is a way.

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#7. The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

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#8. Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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#9. Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

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#10. A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

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#11. Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

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#12. Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

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#13. I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

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#14. Nothing is permanent but change.

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#15. Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

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#16. Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

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#17. Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

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#18. Habit is a form of exercise.

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#19. Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

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#20. All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

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#21. If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

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#22. The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

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

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

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

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#26. The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

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#27. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many

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#28. If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

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#29. Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

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#30. Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

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