Kin Hubbard Quotes

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
- Kin Hubbard

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
- Kin Hubbard

The alimentary canal is thirty two feet long. You control only the first three inches of it. Control it well.
- Kin Hubbard

Beauty is only skin deep,but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
- 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

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
- 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

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Kin Hubbard

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
- Kin Hubbard

Why doesn’t the fellow who says, “I’m no speech maker,” let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
- Kin Hubbard

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

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.
- Kin Hubbard

It ain’t a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you’re talking about.
- Kin Hubbard

An optimist is a fellow who believes what’s going to be will be postponed.
- Kin Hubbard

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

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

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
- Kin Hubbard

A loafer always has the correct time.
- Kin Hubbard

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

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Kin Hubbard

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
- Kin Hubbard

Nothings as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
- Kin Hubbard

There isn’t much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.
- Kin Hubbard

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

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