Kin Hubbard – 28 Quotes

28 Quotes by Kin Hubbard

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

It isn’t enough for you to love money – it’s also necessary that money should love you.

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

When a fellow says, ‘It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,’ it’s the money.

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

– Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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