Top 40 Kin Hubbard Quotes

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

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

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

All the world loves a good loser.

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

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

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

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.

If capital and labor ever do get together it’s good night for the rest of us.

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

The world gets better every day – then worse again in the evening.

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

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

It’s the good loser who finally loses out.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

If some people didn’t tell you, you’d never know they’d been away on a vacation.

If there’s anything a public servant hates to do it’s something for the public.

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

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

Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

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

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother‘s singing.

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.

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

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

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.

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

Where ignorance is bliss it’s foolish to borrow your neighbor‘s newspaper.

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

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

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

Being an optimist after you’ve got everything you want doesn’t count.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

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

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

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

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

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