Kin Hubbard Quotes

» The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

» Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

» Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

» It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

» The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

» It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

» Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

» Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

» When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.

» Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

» Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

» We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

» It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

» If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

» Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

» Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

» There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

» Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

» No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

» We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

» An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

» Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

» Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

» Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

» It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

» A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

» If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

» The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

» Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

» Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

» Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

» A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

» Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

» Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

» The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

» It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.

» Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

» A loafer always has the correct time.

» All the world loves a good loser.

» It's the good loser who finally loses out.

» It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

» Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.

» There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

» If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

» The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening.

» The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

» As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

» No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

» Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.

» Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

» Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

» Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

» Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

» Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

» Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.

» It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

» The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

» Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

» Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

» We'd all like t'vote for th' best man, but he's never a candidate.

» We'd all like t'vote fer th' best man, but he's never a candidate.

» Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

» There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.

» A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

» Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

» If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

» The fellow that owns his own house is always just coming out of a hardware store.

» A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

» There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

» It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

» Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit.

» I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

» After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

» I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

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