Kin Hubbard Quotes
"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Fool, Skin)
"The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Home, Hardware)
"The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more."
- Kin Hubbard
"The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them."
- Kin Hubbard
"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Money)
"The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Day, Evening, World)
"The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Mother, Baby, Singing)
"There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Woman)
"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."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: God, Day, Gold, Hell)
"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."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Failure, Purpose, Defeat, Trying, Weakness)
"There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Nothing, Old)
"Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Family, Peace)
"We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Man, Vote)
"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Money)
"Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Ignorance)
"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Being, Want)
"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Men, Boys, Will)
"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Music, Thinking, Will)
"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Change, People, Conversation, Weather)
"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Management, Destiny)
"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Nothing)
"Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Money, Bargain, Customer, Losing)
"I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: People, Prosperity)
"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Force, Help, Speech, Witty, Woman)
"It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Love, Money)
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Happiness, Wealth, Poverty, Pretty)
"It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Talking)
"If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Wife, Smile)
"If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Public)
"It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Earth, Fun)
"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Labor, Night, Rest)
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Happiness, Wealth, Poverty, Pretty)
"I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Government, Democrats, Ownership, Republicans)
"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: People, Honesty)
"Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Being, Pretty, Suspicion)
"Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Life, Fun)
"Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Habit)
"An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Will)
"Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Men)
"If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: People, Vacation)
"Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Guest)
"Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Peace, War, Monuments)
"Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Home, Wife, Remedies)
"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Man, Now)
"Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Nothing)
"Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Money, Man)
"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Applause, Being)
"It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Advertising, Force, Police, Today)
"Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet."
- Kin Hubbard
"Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Being, Conservative, Credit)
"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Christmas, Nothing, Spirit, Tears)
"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Doubt)
"Listening is the only way to entertain some folks."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Listening)
"Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Patience)
"Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Home, Kindness)
"It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him."
- Kin Hubbard
"It's the good loser who finally loses out."
- Kin Hubbard
"Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Trouble)
"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Famous, School)
"A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Kitchen, Thanksgiving, Turkey)
"A loafer always has the correct time."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Time)
"A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one."
- Kin Hubbard
"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Thinking)
"A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower."
- Kin Hubbard
"No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."
- Kin Hubbard
"All the world loves a good loser."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: World)