Elbert Hubbard Quotes

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

When the only thing you look forward to in life is lunch, you know you have had your just desserts, and it is time to call it a day.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

I can't get no satisfaction.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

I hate not giving the people what they want.

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

Life does not owe me a shred.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.