Words matter. These are the best Kin Hubbard Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
If some people didn’t tell you, you’d never know they’d been away on a vacation.
When a fellow says, ‘It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,’ it’s the money.
A loafer always has the correct time.
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.
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
All the world loves a good loser.
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
It ain’t a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you’re talking about.
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
An optimist is a fellow who believes what’s going to be will be postponed.
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
Where ignorance is bliss it’s foolish to borrow your neighbor’s newspaper.
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Bargain… anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
It’s the good loser who finally loses out.
The world gets better every day – then worse again in the evening.
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.
Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.
There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?
Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
If capital and labor ever do get together it’s good night for the rest of us.
It’s what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.
I don’t look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it’s by applause.
It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.
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.
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
If you haven’t seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven’t seen her smile her prettiest.
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
