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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“Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.”

— Kin Hubbard

Patience

All Quotes by Kin Hubbard

“Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.”

— Kin Hubbard

Patience

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

— Kin Hubbard

Money

“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

“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

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

— Kin Hubbard

Men

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

— Kin Hubbard

Success

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

— Kin Hubbard

Family

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

— Kin Hubbard

Happiness

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

— Kin Hubbard

Happiness

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

— Kin Hubbard

Christmas

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

— Kin Hubbard

Men

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

— Kin Hubbard

Best

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

— Kin Hubbard

Money

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

— Kin Hubbard

Music

“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

“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

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

— Kin Hubbard

Best

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

— Kin Hubbard

Thanksgiving

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

— Kin Hubbard

Smile

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

— Kin Hubbard

Peace