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."

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

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Kin Hubbard

Men

“If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.”

— Kin Hubbard

Smile

“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

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

— Kin Hubbard

Pet

“Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.”

— Kin Hubbard

Patience

“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

“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

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

— Kin Hubbard

Peace

“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

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

— Kin Hubbard

Money

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

— Kin Hubbard

Government

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

— Kin Hubbard

Men

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

— Kin Hubbard

Home

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

— Kin Hubbard

Christmas

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

— Kin Hubbard

Music

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

— Kin Hubbard

Family

“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

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

— Kin Hubbard

Thanksgiving

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

— Kin Hubbard

Money

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

— Kin Hubbard

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