Kin Hubbard

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

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.

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

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

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.

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.