Quotes by Kin Hubbard

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
– Kin Hubbard
A loafer always has the correct time.
– Kin Hubbard
About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
– Kin Hubbard
All the world loves a good loser.
– Kin Hubbard
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
– 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
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
– Kin Hubbard
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
– Kin Hubbard
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
– Kin Hubbard
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
If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
– Kin Hubbard
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
– Kin Hubbard
If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
– Kin Hubbard
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
– Kin Hubbard
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
– Kin Hubbard
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.
– Kin Hubbard
It's the good loser who finally loses out.
– Kin Hubbard
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
– Kin Hubbard
Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
– Kin Hubbard
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
– Kin Hubbard
No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
– 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
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
– Kin Hubbard
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
– Kin Hubbard
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
– Kin Hubbard
Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.
– Kin Hubbard
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
– Kin Hubbard
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
– Kin Hubbard
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
– Kin Hubbard
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
– Kin Hubbard
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
– Kin Hubbard
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
– Kin Hubbard
The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening.
– 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
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
– Kin Hubbard
We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.
– Kin Hubbard
When a fellow says, It ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
– Kin Hubbard
Why doesn't the fellow who says I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
– Kin Hubbard
You won't skid if you stay in a rut.
– Kin Hubbard
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
– Kin Hubbard
Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
– Kin Hubbard
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
– Kin Hubbard
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
– Kin Hubbard
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
– Kin Hubbard
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
– Kin Hubbard
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
– Kin Hubbard
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
– Kin Hubbard
Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
– Kin Hubbard
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
– Kin Hubbard
I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
– Kin Hubbard
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
– 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
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
– Kin Hubbard
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
– Kin Hubbard