Top 140 Kin Hubbard Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “There isn’t much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.”

— Kin Hubbard

103. “It ain’t a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you’re talking about.”

— Kin Hubbard

104. “Politics makes strange post-masters.”

— Kin Hubbard

105. “In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.”

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Kin Hubbard

107. “We’re all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.”

— Kin Hubbard

108. “Don’t say yes until I’ve finished talking. – Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”

— Kin Hubbard

109. “Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers the goods.”

— Kin Hubbard

110. “Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously – the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.”

— Kin Hubbard

111. “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

112. “Another bad thing about “prosperity” is that you can’t jingle any money without being under suspicion.”

— Kin Hubbard

113. “An optimist is a fellow who believes what’s going to be will be postponed.”

— Kin Hubbard

114. “One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.”

— Kin Hubbard

115. “If there’s any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.”

— Kin Hubbard

116. “It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.”

— Kin Hubbard

117. “Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.”

— Kin Hubbard

118. “My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.”

— Kin Hubbard

119. “A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.”

— Kin Hubbard

120. “It’s what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.”

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Kin Hubbard

122. “Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.”

— Kin Hubbard

123. “Never tell the box-office man that you can’t hear well or he will sell you a seat where can can’t see either.”

— Kin Hubbard

124. “We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.”

— Kin Hubbard

125. “Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?”

— Kin Hubbard

126. “Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it’s by applause.”

— Kin Hubbard

127. “When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.”

— Kin Hubbard

128. “About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.”

— Kin Hubbard

129. “Don’t a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.”

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Kin Hubbard

131. “Look out for the people who allow you to do all the talking.”

— Kin Hubbard

132. “It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there’s a few resignations.”

— Kin Hubbard

133. “The man who says “I may be wrong, but – ” does not believe there can be any such possibility.”

— Kin Hubbard

134. “The only time some fellows are seen with their wives is after they’re indicted.”

— Kin Hubbard

135. “I don’t know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.”

— Kin Hubbard

136. “I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.”

— Kin Hubbard

137. “Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.”

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Kin Hubbard

139. “Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn’t do when he was young.”

— Kin Hubbard

140. “None but the brave can live with the fair.”

— Kin Hubbard

141. “If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.”

— Kin Hubbard

142. “Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.”

— Kin Hubbard