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Authors
Kin Hubbard
American
Journalist
About the author
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Success
#Successful
#Man
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Fool
#Skin
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Home
#Hardware
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Money
The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Day
#World
#Evening
The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Mother
#Baby
#Singing
There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Woman
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,
American
Journalist
#God
#Day
#Hell
#Gold
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,
American
Journalist
#Failure
#Purpose
#Trying
#Defeat
#Weakness
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Nothing
#Old
Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Family
#Peace
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Man
#Vote
When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Money
Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Ignorance
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Want
#Being
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Will
#Men
#Boys
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Will
#Thinking
#Music
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,
American
Journalist
#People
#Weather
#Change
#Conversation
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Management
#Destiny
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Nothing
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Money
#Losing
#Customer
#Bargain
I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#People
#Prosperity
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,
American
Journalist
#Woman
#Help
#Speech
#Force
#Witty
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Love
#Money
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Pretty
#Poverty
#Happiness
#Wealth
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Talking
If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Wife
#Smile
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Public
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Fun
#Earth
If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Night
#Labor
#Rest
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Pretty
#Poverty
#Happiness
#Wealth
I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Government
#Ownership
#Democrats
#Republicans
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#People
#Honesty
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,
American
Journalist
#Being
#Pretty
#Suspicion
Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Life
#Fun
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Habit
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Will
Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Men
If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#People
#Vacation
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Guest
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#War
#Peace
#Monuments
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Wife
#Home
#Remedies
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Now
#Man
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Nothing
Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Man
#Money
Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Being
#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.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Today
#Police
#Force
#Advertising
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Being
#Conservative
#Credit
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Nothing
#Spirit
#Christmas
#Tears
Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Doubt
Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Listening
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Patience
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Home
#Kindness
It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
It's the good loser who finally loses out.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Trouble
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,
American
Journalist
#School
#Famous
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Kitchen
#Thanksgiving
#Turkey
A loafer always has the correct time.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Time
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#Thinking
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
All the world loves a good loser.
Kin Hubbard,
American
Journalist
#World