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

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

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

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

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The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
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Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
- Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
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Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
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Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
- Kin Hubbard

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A loafer always has the correct time.
- Kin Hubbard

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?
- Kin Hubbard

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Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.
- Kin Hubbard

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When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.
- Kin Hubbard

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Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
- Kin Hubbard

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Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
- Kin Hubbard

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A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they’re married.
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It isn’t enough for you to love money it’s also necessary that money should love you.
- Kin Hubbard