Famous Quotes

Quotes by Kin Hubbard

• A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
• A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
• After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.
• 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.
• Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
• Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
• Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
• Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
• I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
• If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
• It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
• It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
• It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
• Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
• Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
• Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
• Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
• No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
• 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 works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
• Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
• Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
• The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
• The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
• 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.
• There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
• Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
• We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
• When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.