Kin Hubbard Quotes

• If there’s anything a public servant hates to do it’s something for the public.

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• The worst waste of breathe, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son.

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• Many a family tree needs trimming.

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• When some fellows decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

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• Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.

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

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• Kindness goes a long ways lots o’ times when it ought t’ stay at home.

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• When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it’s a wonder there isn’t more of it done.

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• The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

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• The feller that calls you “brother” generally wants something that don’t belong to him.

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• The worst feature of a new baby is its mother’s singing.

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• If capital and labor ever do get together it’s good night for the rest of us.

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

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

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• Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.

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• After a fellow gets famous it doesn’t take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

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• A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

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• If some people didn’t tell you, you’d never know they’d been away on a vacation.

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• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

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• There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

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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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