Kin Hubbard famous quotes

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Literature #Hardest

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

#Funny #Christmas #Tears

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

#Home #Wife #Good Wife

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Forgiveness #Forget #Buried

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Garden #Order

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Money

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

#Agreement #Skins #Fool

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

#Funny #Inspiring #Happiness

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

#Music #Thinking #Tunes

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

#Funny #Witty #Freedom

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Christmas #Children #Mean

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Destiny #Funny Work #Confusion

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

#Humorous #Maturity #Boys

Many a family tree needs trimming
-- Kin Hubbard

#Family #Tree #Needs

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
-- Kin Hubbard

#People #Luck #Pay

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

#Stay Strong #Time #Kindness

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

#Smile #Wife #Funny Marriage

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Pockets #Pay #Compliment

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

#Government #Long #Looks

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

#Hate #Politics #Public Speaking

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Inspiration #Men #Political

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

#Love #Money #Enough

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

#Inspirational #Success #Stay Strong

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

#Appearance #Being Pretty #Penalties

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Girl #Long #Engagement

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Get Better #World #Evening

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

#Life #Humor #Successful

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

#Sick #Pet #Literature

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

#Thanksgiving #Turkeys #Kitchen

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

#Change #Communication #Weather

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed
-- Kin Hubbard

#Believe #Optimist

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

#Truth #Honesty #People

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Book #Waiting

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Funny #Business #Doing Nothing

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Birthday #Fun #50th Birthday

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

#Sarcastic #Sarcasm #Literature

"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "
-- Kin Hubbard

#Giving #Let It Go #Public Speaking

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Sarcastic #Sarcasm #Thinking

A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Advice #Way #Good Advice

Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Feel Good #Stores #Feels

A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Sympathy #Long #Cost

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done
-- Kin Hubbard

#Husband #Poison #Done

The rich man and his daughter are soon parted.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Daughter #Women #Men

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Jobs #Men #Self

Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Rain #Weather #Car

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Long #Guests #Popularity

None but the brave can live with the fair.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Brave #Attractiveness

It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations
-- Kin Hubbard

#Resignation

Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers the goods.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Teacher #Entrepreneur #Dear

One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Entrepreneur #Opinion

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Strong #Coffee #Black

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Thinking #Justice #Folks

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Mistake #Men #Entrepreneur

The fellow that calls you 'brother' usually wants something that doesn't belong to him.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Leadership #Sports #Brother

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Ruts

We can tell that a good name is better than riches by those who prefer the riches.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Names #Entrepreneur #Riches

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Epidemics #People #Sensitive

The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son
-- Kin Hubbard

#Son #Waste #Next

Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Funny #Enthusiasm #Fees

Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?
-- Kin Hubbard

#Monday #Sunday #Remember

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Opinion #Conformity #Folks

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Marriage #Husband

If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Firsts #Succeed #Chance

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Business #Government #Democracy

Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Fashion #Men #Barricades

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Government #Years #Editors

It don't make no difference what is is, a woman'll buy anything she thinks a store is losin' money on.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Sex #Thinking #Differences

I never saw an athletic girl that thought she was strong enough to do indoor work.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Girl #Strong #Sex

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Art #Jobs #Government

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Morning #Simple #Night

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Nuisance #Unbearable #Worst

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Doctors #Modern Life #Poor

Most parents don't worry about a daughter until she fails to show up for breakfast.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Daughter #Worry #Parent

Look out for the people who allow you to do all the talking.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Talking #People #Looks

Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.
-- Kin Hubbard

#People #Recognition #Folks

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Hurt #Flattery

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Reason #Empty #Stomach

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Style #Society #Spite

The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Behaviour #Way #Reason

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
-- Kin Hubbard

#People #Favors #Birth

Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Home #Thinking #Borrowing

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Flags

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Sweet #Gossip #Risk

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Currency #Thousand #Inflation

Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Honest #Folks #Stills

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows
-- Kin Hubbard

#Society #Quiet #Said

I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Women #Want #Shows

The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Believe #Men #Doe

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Mean #Authority

Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where can can't see either.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Men #Office #Boxes

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Education #Son #Men

All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have it the problem o' keepin' 'em from gitten;' it would be greatly simplified
-- Kin Hubbard

#Would Be #Ems #Problem