A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
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
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
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
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 is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
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
Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.
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
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
Kin Hubbard
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
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 agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
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 only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
Kin Hubbard
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
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
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
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
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Type:
Journalist
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
1930
Nationality:
American |
