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."

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

— Kin Hubbard

Home

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

— Kin Hubbard

Music

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

— Kin Hubbard

Peace

“Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.”

— Kin Hubbard

Christmas

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

— Kin Hubbard

Family

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

— Kin Hubbard

Home

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

— Kin Hubbard

Success

“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

“It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.”

— Kin Hubbard

Happiness

“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

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

— Kin Hubbard

Home

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

— Kin Hubbard

Men

“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

Alone

“It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.”

— 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

“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

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

— Kin Hubbard

Money

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

— Kin Hubbard

Money

“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