Kin Hubbard

• "No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.“
• "We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.“
• "Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.“
• "Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.“
• "There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.“
• "Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.“
• "After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.“
• "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.“
• "A good listener is usually thinking about something else.“
• "Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.“
• "I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.“
• "It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.“
• "It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.“
• "Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.“
• "The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.“
• "Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.“
• "Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.“
• "Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.“
• "The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.“
• "It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.“
• "When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.“
• "Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.“
• "Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.“
• "Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.“
• "Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.“
• "Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.“
• "Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.“
• "Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.“
• "No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.“
• "We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.“
• "If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.“
• "There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?“
• "Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.“
• "Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.“
• "A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.“

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