Kin Hubbard Quotes

Kin Hubbard (124)

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

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Births

• 1873 - Hans Berger
• 1957 - Edward Ernest Reinhold Jr.
• 1917 - Raymond Burr
• 1958 - Tom Feeney

Deaths

• 1926 - Ronald Firbank
• 1952 - John Garfield
• 1983 - Kenneth Clark
• 1999 - Charles Pierce
• 1935 - Jane Addams

• Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

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

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.

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• Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

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• It’s what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

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• Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

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• Why doesn’t the fellow who says “I’m no speechmaker” let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

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• Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

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• Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

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• The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

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