Kin Hubbard - Quotes

Quotes

• Don't knock th' weather. Nine-tenths o' th' people couldn' start a conversation if it didn' change once in a while.
• Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.
• Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
• Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
• Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
• We'd all like t'vote fer th'best man, but he's never a candidate.
• When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.
• There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
• There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together.
• The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
• The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
• Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

A Hubbard quote, "It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be," was mentioned in Kurt Vonnegut's World War II novel, "Slaughterhouse Five."