Kin Hubbard Quotes

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Kin Hubbard

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 1, 1868

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

Kin Hubbard

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Kin Hubbard

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Kin Hubbard

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

Kin Hubbard

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

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

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

Kin Hubbard

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

Kin Hubbard

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

Kin Hubbard

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Kin Hubbard

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

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