"When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong."
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"When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference."
"One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before."
"The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them."
"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
"A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married."
"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."
"If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation."
"A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower."
"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."
"I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity."
"The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded."
"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"
"Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it."
"A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good."
"Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought."
"Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness."
"There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them."
"If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy."
"Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on."