Kin Hubbard Quotes

• No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

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

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• Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?

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• Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.

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• Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can’t buzz any slower.

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• 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.

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• Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

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• Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

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• Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it’s by applause.

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

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• Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

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

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• Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.

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• The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it’s so crowded.

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

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• A loafer always has the correct time.

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• If a feller screwed up his face when he asked for credit like he does when he’s asked to settle, he wouldn’t get it.

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• Why they call a feller that keeps losin’ all the time a good sport gits me.

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

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• It’s the good loser who finally loses out.

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Kin Hubbard (125)

Birth:	1st September, 1868
Death:	26th December, 1930
Nationality:	American, Indian
Profession:	Cartoonist, Humorist, Journalist

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