Quotes from Kin Hubbard

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

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

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

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

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

Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers th' goods.

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

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.

There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.

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

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

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

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