Kin Hubbard

Kin Hubbard

29 quotes

Kin Hubbard is an American cartoonist whose words have traveled far beyond their original audience. Beyond Kin Hubbard, was an American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist, Kin Hubbard proved equally skilled at capturing ideas in a sentence or two. Discover 35 of Kin Hubbard's most memorable quotes, ranging across Money, Home, Peace, Men, and Happiness. Readers often gravitate to this one: "No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."

“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.”

— Kin Hubbard

Peace

All Quotes by Kin Hubbard

“We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.”

— Kin Hubbard

Best

“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.”

— Kin Hubbard

Peace

“The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.”

— Kin Hubbard

Home

“Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.”

— Kin Hubbard

Patience

“There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?”

— Kin Hubbard

Success

“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

Change

“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.”

— Kin Hubbard

Music

“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

Failure

“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.”

— Kin Hubbard

Money

“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

Famous

“Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.”

— Kin Hubbard

Best

“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.”

— Kin Hubbard

Men

“Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.”

— Kin Hubbard

Home

“When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.”

— Kin Hubbard

Money

“A good listener is usually thinking about something else.”

— Kin Hubbard

Good

“No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.”

— Kin Hubbard

Pet

“A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.”

— Kin Hubbard

Thanksgiving

“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”

— Kin Hubbard

Men

“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

God

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

— Kin Hubbard

Government