J. G. Hubbard Quotes

An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

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

A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are.

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

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

Beauty is . . . a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

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

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.

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

It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.

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

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

History: gossip well told.

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.